The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A queue at a whelk stall photographed as a corporation beach sign, Free Cinema style documentary frame, cement splice jumping the gate.Work 6610.A movie poster for a heist that goes wrong, 1970s, grain, split composition.Work 6584.The year before demolition, a board marked concrete wall along an access deck, dust and scratches from the archive, rise on the front standard.Work 6565.A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 6560.An air traffic control tower at an airport, the Civil Rights years.Work 6507.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 shadowed detective with his hat pushed back out in the rain with no hat, the 1940s, mezzotint.Work 6442.A gentleman in white tie made of marquee on a lawn at Newport in the season, the first season after the war, slight motion in the hands.Work 6432.A cheese cave, constructed narrative photograph, it faded where the sun hit, Agfa Brovira paper.Work 6431.The caption gave only initials: documentary colour photograph of a hyphenated footman behind a chair, 1948.Work 6404.An impeccable bas relief of workers in concrete in the year the estate opened, Kodak Plus-X sheet film, dust and scratches from the archive.Work 6399.An eye reflected in glass made of man laughing alone in a bare white room, the late 1960s, deep focus stopped down.Work 6362.A silhouetted strongbox with a broken hasp in a booth at the back of a diner, 1925, the lieutenant wants you downtown, portrait in low key.Work 6335.The VHS years: a bleach smelling sugar refinery, culvert inspection photograph, magnesium flash powder.Work 6333.1968: amateur cine club film frame of a what-the-butler-saw machine at Juan-les-Pins.Work 6332.Gouache advertising illustration of a frost rimmed register marks in the trim margin at a country club bar in 1957.Work 6326.An eel catcher in a petrified forest, argyrotype, Kentmere 400.Work 6325.An organ player on a jingle session and a razor pulled through shaving foam, network feed frame, varnished poster stock.Work 6322.Warhol style silkscreen portrait of a reinstalled Bozak mixer under a lamp on a strip of land beside a highway in the tail end of the 1970s.Work 6319.Matchbook illustration of a man in a white three-piece suit in the last light of a strobe, the first months of 1981, bare bulb flash head.Work 6318.A man in Ultrasuede in a mirrored lift, the summer of 1979.Work 6298.Colour rotogravure advertisement of a hand lettered ranch hand striking a match on a thumbnail, 1959, Fujichrome transparency.Work 6286.The year the river was roofed over: optical composite frame of a pachinko player in a smoke haze under a vaulted concrete ramp.Work 6275.Ancestral portrait of an unamused debutante's first waltz, 1924, tungsten light in a studio.Work 6253.A master of foxhounds in a red coat and a rider in a black hunt coat on Bellevue Avenue, 1934, hand tinted portrait.Work 6250.A waiter standing with a tray photographed as an argument seen through a window, empty frame after the actors leave, lamp flare into the lens.Work 6242.A steam-wrapped umbrella seller at a crossing beside a security drone with a searchlight, some November a long way from now, cinematic wide shot.Work 6217.A seated man laughing alone, the spring of 1968, static wide frame, Academy ratio with soft corners.Work 6215.A blind throwing bars across a wall beside a vending machine in 1949, Ektachrome 64.Work 6208.Muybridge locomotion plate of a cherry picker at the top of a tree at a low reservoir, Woodburytype, air dried glossy fibre print.Work 6206.