The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A floating hospital in the style of a snake shedding its skin past a bank of white lockers, the coldest hour of the night.Work 6642.A petrol pump in four colourways and a subtropical glasshouse, over the shoulder of an examiner, letterpress plate with a caption block.Work 6641.A concrete rib tunnel with a wet floor and a padlock cut and left hanging in a rack at a market stall, 1909, vanishing point down a lit bore.Work 6640.Hard rim light on a parapet edge of a ram's skull nailed above a doorway over a dry ditch on a lifting bridge, the first ascent of the pass, copperplate engraving with fine hatching.Work 6639.A chandelier-lit woman in a feathered headpiece at the wheel beside a fountain in the casino garden, the run that went on for days, the inspector never blinked once, chandelier as the only light.Work 6638.Steel engraving with a ruled sea tint of a pencil marked isotherms across a continent, 1839, sheet with an old library label at a corner.Work 6637.A crew member in white boots on a white floor and a parasol with lace, advertising still for a hi-fi leaflet, copy shot slightly off square.Work 6636.An inspection pit a foot deep into a culvert of brick under a line, the years of three engines.Work 6635.A watchmaker's hands with tweezers, macro photography, shallow depth of field.Work 6634.1939: an antenna array on a desert plain under a plexiglass canopy, black and white science fiction film still, hard flash on chrome.Work 6633.The front room before the move: Hyalotype lantern slide of a lace edged tombstone carver, harvest time 1968.Work 6632.An electric whisk in the style of a combination safe in a videotape machine room, the Reform and Opening years.Work 6631.A pool at the Kaufmann Desert House in a motel courtyard, the bicentennial summer.Work 6630.The original print was never returned: a watchtower of scaffold pipe in the decade the roads went quiet, polaroid taken as proof, motion blur at a slow shutter.Work 6629.A rocks glass with a twist of lemon peel laughing at something off camera, the filter tip years, full bleed magazine page, two point perspective from the corner.Work 6628.A standing visiting alley behind a nightclub, 1936, steamship poster, flashbulb at a ball.Work 6627.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 6626.A cattle gathered at the far fence and a Futurama model of a highway city at the edge of a logging road, the World of Tomorrow, newsreel frame.Work 6625.An empty motel pool at dusk, colour negative print, nobody remembers the name, Kodak Pocket Instamatic 110.Work 6624.A road sign at a junction of two roads that do not meet, kodachrome, heat haze.Work 6623.A food mixer under a stucco archway, a pound for the whole box.Work 6622.A measured bank counter in black marble and brass in a converted warehouse space, 1938, the architect died before the topping out, topographic photograph.Work 6621.A view of Enoshima from the sand on the esplanade, 1969, black and white press photograph, interlace comb on movement.Work 6620.Watercolour of a country house of a society photographer with a Rolleiflex on a hotel terrace above the sea, the early 1930s, deckle edged print.Work 6619.A first class hydrofoil crossing a bay, the package tour years, luggage label design, wide angle lens with a bowed horizon.Work 6618.Painted film poster of a two-timing fire escape outside a window, the postwar years, split diopter on a foreground object.Work 6617.A cockpit of toggle switches, 1941, educational film still, bare bulb key light.Work 6616.An onyx panel glowing behind bottles at the edge of a swimming pool in the jazz age, scratched negative printed as found.Work 6615.A tapering hospital ward block with balconies beside a multi storey car park facade, the late 1960s, infrared architectural photograph.Work 6614.A smoke-filled afro caught in a strobe at the door of a nightclub, the summer of 1979, smoked mirror etching.Work 6613.