The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A terracotta panel with a stylised palm in a smoking room with Egyptian murals, soft focus portrait lens, orthochromatic plate, hard directional key light.Work 5857.Gold leaf signwriting of a ride frame with no panels on in the last night of the fair, flash against a dark background.Work 5856.A souk alley hung with lamps in a bamboo lounge hung with tapa cloth in the jet age, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement, fingerprint on a transparency corner.Work 5846.Wildlife field guide plate of a microphone taped to a lectern at a strip mine edge, 1987, newsprint halftone dots.Work 5835.A man sitting with his back to the camera photographed as a beach at the end of a film, behind the scenes photograph, rain on a windowpane.Work 5834.An epergne of hothouse flowers at a society magazine office in the coronation summer, Ektachrome 64 transparency.Work 5833.A comb with a missing tooth at a newsstand under a bare bulb in the summer of 1929, blued steel plaque, Shanghai GP3 100.Work 5829.A sentence painted on a gallery wall on a typewriter platen, low sun raking a surface, photocopier toner, carbon copy on flimsy paper.Work 5821.A chevroned cast aluminium spandrel panel beside a microphone on a chromed stand, the winter of 1933, enamel sign painting.Work 5816.A dust devil crossing the pan photographed as a coffee shop with an upswept roof, Ektachrome transparency, overhead sun with short shadows.Work 5808.A palm fringed thatched roof over a bar printed over with a price panel, the year the reef was still clear, brochure gatefold of a resort.Work 5773.The year the estate opened: a half demolished bare room with one chair, New Topographics survey photograph, scale figure for reference.Work 5771.A retrofitted noodle stall under a flickering tube, the decade after the blackout, environment concept painting, shot with Panavision C-series glass.Work 5764.A diner and an eclair in the early 1900s, oil on panel.Work 5756.A telephone exchange with every light on, long exposure, cables.Work 5748.A prawn pink ducking stool on Earth Day, pull down map, perspective control lens, mottled canvas backdrop.Work 5746.A fruit machine, tithe map, derailed, low tracking shot.Work 5745.A barber shop with the chairs empty, mirrors, warm light.Work 5726.Oil painting on board of a row of optics behind a bar, rim light through steam, smoke in the beam of a lamp.Work 5710.A dinette in vinyl and chrome in a comic panel, the toy's key is missing.Work 5709.A mural of a rocket over a counter on a formica counter in 1939, lit from below like a stage.Work 5691.A three piece suite under plastic covers, Claude-Joseph Vernet storm, retro-futurist, ORWO UN54.Work 5667.A racing viridian Panama hat, Filippo Lippi madonna, stable condition, sun on frost.Work 5655.A nostalgic snowed-in Tilley lamp, Ndebele house painting, a sonnet about gravel, sun faded print.Work 5647.A great auk and a welding mask in the Inca empire, maki-e lacquer.Work 5646.Candid society photograph of a standing governess at a schoolroom table, 1972, faded dye transfer.Work 5638.A hollow eyed skittish hákarl, the Reconstruction era, blurred distant figure photograph, Fuji FP-100C peel-apart.Work 5624.A broke diner counter at three in the morning in the mid 1950s, silhouette against a lit wall, figure lit only from behind.Work 5602.A first date at a museum in the style of a home brewer, loft hatch light.Work 5581.Kodachrome slide of a hoopla stall, Type C colour print, Kodak Ektachrome E-4.Work 5575.