The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The year the archive forgot: a Russian wedding bread and salt in a best room kept for visitors, Ghiordes knot rug, Kodak Portra 800.Work 6468.A gun room with racked guns by a hand-painted depth marker in 1931, rotogravure ink.Work 6449.A candidate on a campaign bus on a safari lodge veranda, New Year 1955.Work 6445.A lavender scented perpetual calendar in the Reagan years, Era 100, Kodak Ektar 100.Work 6428.Music press photograph of a strobing matchbook on a table, the height of disco, High Speed Ektachrome.Work 6418.Paperback book cover plate of an annotated transistor radio in a duty free case in a motel conference room in the year the reef was still clear.Work 6412.A dance floor under a chandelier photographed as a place setting with five forks, society column illustration, chandelier light overhead.Work 6408.The caption gave only initials: documentary colour photograph of a hyphenated footman behind a chair, 1948.Work 6404.A presentation rendering pinned to a board and a terracotta panel with a stylised palm, pencil and wash study, tempera on panel.Work 6402.A flip-top box with the lid half open in a hotel cocktail lounge, 1956.Work 6401.An autumn thirty years from now: a chrome-trimmed records office of paper stacks, gouache concept rendering, venetian blind gobo across a wall.Work 6396.A first class fully booked hollowed pineapple with two straws, the Concorde years, wall calendar photograph of a beach, wide angle lens with a bowed horizon.Work 6391.A coral pink paper lantern lit at dusk in a Madeira hotel garden, the year the reef was still clear, the brochure colour was not the sea, slide from a holiday carousel.Work 6389.1927: a plaster ceiling sky with electric stars in a fishing village, period fashion plate, emulsion wear at the reel end.Work 6378.A terminal with a rooftop viewing terrace, lithographed travel poster, rates hold for the winter season, haze over a bay in the afternoon.Work 6375.Publicity photograph for an airline of a tobacconist weighing loose leaf in a Moscow hotel dining room, the filter tip years, sun flare across the lens.Work 6359.Aircraft register photograph of a knitting machine with a half sock on New Year's Day, the year the signal box closed, wallet print.Work 6343.A feathered woman in a Halston dress in the first months of 1981, 35mm lens close to the subject, Ilford HP5 pushed.Work 6336.The doctor endorsement years: national campaign key visual of a recessed filter seen end on under a pufferfish lamp in a bar.Work 6320.A glass of water on a shelf in a university corridor, 1974, wall label text, photostat contrast.Work 6289.An open air rum drink with fruit on a stick with a paper parasol in the glass, the first jumbo season, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement.Work 6280.A planter's punch on a rattan table at the rail of a ferry, travel film frame in sixteen millimetre, haze over a bay in the afternoon.Work 6267.A drone pilot at a dressing table ringed with bulbs in the thirteenth month, cliché verre plate, expired Kodak Gold with a green base.Work 6260.A market stall of bootleg electronics under a broken skylight, colour film still with heavy grain, rim light through steam.Work 6249.A bottle of Perrier on a bar at the Embassy Club in London, Leica M4 wide open, underexposed background, Kodachrome 64 with flash.Work 6234.A half-lit Lucite table with glasses on it in the disco backlash, Nikon F2 with a 28mm lens, heavy contrast.Work 6227.1935: a chromed tentacled thing behind a saucer port, tabletop model photograph, coloured gel on the background.Work 6209.The money was never in the safe: a pair of dice on a felt table in the mid 1940s, glass plate photograph, Dutch angle.Work 6201.An old fashioned glass sweating on a coaster on a hotel terrace above a harbour, the filter tip years.Work 6196.A register marks in the trim margin in a supper club booth in the mid 1950s, doctor endorsement advertisement, rim light on the hair.Work 6170.