The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Perspective corrected photograph of a cooling tower's hyperboloid throat and a construction hoarding with a rendering, 1928, 35mm black and white negative.Work 6582.A steam-wrapped blackened tower with a flare stack beside a loudspeaker on a lamp post, the generation after the collapse, transparency in a slide mount.Work 6569.A drive in with a circular pavilion and a rocketship standing on three fins on the surface of a red planet, the year of the fair, model shot with wires.Work 6551.The first week of October, a listed civic hall with a raised forum with a service tower alongside, Diane Arbus style photograph.Work 6549.A geiger counter over bare ground in Del Norte County, headlights raking a field, Tri-X pushed two stops, low sun behind the subject.Work 6541.An earnest amateur astronomer with a telescope, 1966, penciled site sketch, print made on grade 4 paper.Work 6540.A refinery on the horizon on a ridge above the road, the second generation after the fall, Kodachrome slide, handheld from a moving vehicle.Work 6534.The long dry: a cloud moving over the deep end at a desert motor court, faded album page, frozen dust at a high shutter speed.Work 6522.Joel Meyerowitz style photograph of a still empty motel pool at dusk, the long summer of 1977, glare off the water.Work 6501.A parking lot with painted bays reflected in a shallow pool, 1951, conservation survey photograph, red filter darkening a grey sky.Work 6493.A tapering rain stained prefabricated panel seam, 1932, Julius Shulman style photograph, polarising filter darkening the sky.Work 6490.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 6483.A season after the convoys stopped: polarised landscape photograph of a radio mast guyed with cable in a cloud of its own dust.Work 6482.A service tower clad in concrete at the foot of a stair tower, bracketed exposure for the interior, Ektachrome 64 transparency, raking light across board marks.Work 6477.16mm archive footage frame of a puddle full of coloured light, 35mm lens in a crowd, bulb flare in the frame.Work 6472.A stripped-down pursuit sedan with an exposed blower in the flare of a burning stack, the years after the water ran out, last water for two hundred miles, high-contrast colour photograph.Work 6470.An undated cropped row of prints across a sandbar, the second century of the smog, snapshot taken in a hurry, raindrops on the front element.Work 6467.Long lens shot through heat haze of a wrecking yard on a salt pan trailing a plume of dust, the years after the wells were capped.Work 6456.A chromed atomic power plant with a cooling stack, the late 1930s, Kodachrome transparency.Work 6441.A rain-slicked chimney stack throwing a flame, the middle of the next century, rim light through steam.Work 6425.The years of the dust, a tanker rig with welded plate armour under a swung boom microphone, lens flare through a dust plume, silhouette against a white sky.Work 6390.Toy box lid illustration of a tailfin on a building parapet in the late 1940s, sodium light over a parking lot.Work 6355.The fair comes every October: a Ferris wheel over a state fair in the first week of October, linen finish postcard, magenta dye shift.Work 6341.Nobody is coming: a rooftop water tank on stilts in a future that kept its old machines, production concept painting, bloom around a bright sign.Work 6338.A counterweight trebuchet in a willy-willy in Christmas 1970, a fluorescent green cast.Work 6337.An earnest shape over a hayfield beside a photographic analyst at a light box, the summer of 1967, topographic map detail.Work 6331.A radio set with a lit dial beneath a lit billboard, the decade of the off-world lotteries, practical effects still, atmospheric haze lit from behind.Work 6317.A Unisphere in stainless steel on a launch gantry, the year of the fair, instructional filmstrip frame, macro close up of a tin joint.Work 6314.Bruce Davidson style photograph of an underlit amusement pier at night, the first week of October, blurred ride in a slow exposure.Work 6311.A Googie roof sloping at an acute angle beside a landed saucer, 1947, Amazing Stories cover illustration, red gel washing the backdrop.Work 6299.