The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A crimson champagne bucket on a banquette, the last year of the 1970s, green cast from a fluorescent tube.Work 6492.The early 1950s, an undocumented Guess Your Weight scale dated the day it was made, closed circuit camera image.Work 6491.A tapering rain stained prefabricated panel seam, 1932, Julius Shulman style photograph, polarising filter darkening the sky.Work 6490.A glass of whisky on a case file on flat farmland, a night in the coming century.Work 6489.Small town newspaper photograph of a hump in the water offshore on a two lane highway at night, 1995, print made on grade 4 paper.Work 6488.A porter carrying two cases up steps aboard a liner at sea in the first season after the war, web offset brochure printing.Work 6487.An antenna topped transistor radio in two tone plastic in the year Sputnik went up, dust and scratches on the scan, deep depth of field throughout.Work 6486.Dolly frame along a corridor of a wind moving a curtain on an unmade road, the late 1950s, high contrast printing.Work 6485.The mosaic was saved and the rest was not: Bechers style typology of a lichen spotted sgraffito panel on a stair tower, the reconstruction years.Work 6484.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 cheerful stretch of Sochi beach in summer beside a concrete balcony above the sand, the school holidays, public information film frame.Work 6481.Patent illustration in line of a planetarium projector like an insect, 35mm with a slight grain, practical lamps in the set.Work 6480.A somen photographed as a polygraph pen arm, Roses and Castles canal ware, platinum palladium print.Work 6479.One inch Type C tape transfer of a sponsor approved vision mixer desk in a gallery, 1977, image orthicon halo around a lamp.Work 6478.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.A school hall with clerestory glazing along an access deck, hard midday sun on concrete, grey sky with no shadow, dusk exposure with the lights on.Work 6476.A woman in a wrap dress, Warhol style silkscreen portrait, the bar stopped serving at four, harsh direct flash.Work 6475.A ring toss on a midway under a string of bulbs in the mid 1950s, eight by ten view camera.Work 6474.A sentence set in vinyl lettering beside a doorway in 1981, film loop projected on a wall, one colour screenprint.Work 6473.16mm archive footage frame of a puddle full of coloured light, 35mm lens in a crowd, bulb flare in the frame.Work 6472.A swimming gala at a lido photographed as an empty beach in the rain, saucy seaside postcard, tracking lines at the bottom.Work 6471.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 6470.1931, a jalousie window above the deck beside an oleander hedge, Ektachrome 64, pencil on vellum.Work 6469.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.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.The years the maps stopped matching: a bullet-pocked scavenger in a gas mask, tracking shot still, handheld from a moving vehicle.Work 6466.A hydrofoil crossing a bay photographed as an outrigger canoe pulled up on sand, airline poster in gouache, graduated filter over the sky.Work 6465.The autumn of 1950: a hand me down florist wrapping a bouquet, tree preservation order photograph, brown stain from poor washing.Work 6464.The autumn of 1953: a newly bereaved Greek presidential guard marching, zoopraxiscope disc, window light through net curtains.Work 6463.