The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A rubber mask stretched over a skull form in the style of an armature stripped of its rubber in a vice on the armature bench, a cold studio winter of 1966.Work 6738.A harness-clipped Soviet sanatorium, the giant holiday number, through-the-crowd composition, glare-flattened exterior plate.Work 6737.A traced fired pinnacled canopy over a standing figure, around 1380, flat pattern with no cast shadow, window wired to an external guard.Work 6718.A wind-burnt ski school line in matching red bibs in New Year 1982, airbrushed gouache on board, flash fill against hard sun.Work 6693.A deadpan attendant in a moulded chest plate, the year nobody logged, slow push along an axis, cold-toned chromogenic print.Work 6691.The sun took an hour to clear the trees: a landing skid shadow on wet sand in the first years of the 1970s, high angle over flooded ground, daylight stock at first light.Work 6688.Two-up layout copied and guillotined of a cover with the title cut into a photograph, photostat mounted on thin cardboard, biro on lined paper then copied.Work 6675.1866, a far-walled tent pitched on a pale shore with its reflection completing the shape, scale given by a single small coat.Work 6673.A symmetrical two clerks slapping palms over a terminal beside a crewel wool wound on a bone winder, 1738, line illustration with hatched shadow.Work 6661.An airport departures board with impossible destinations, long exposure.Work 6656.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 standing visiting alley behind a nightclub, 1936, steamship poster, flashbulb at a ball.Work 6627.A view of Enoshima from the sand on the esplanade, 1969, black and white press photograph, interlace comb on movement.Work 6620.A queue at a whelk stall photographed as a corporation beach sign, Free Cinema style documentary frame, cement splice jumping the gate.Work 6610.The late 1920s, a race meeting enclosure at Cowes, mounted on grey board, platinum print warmth.Work 6604.A movie poster for a heist that goes wrong, 1970s, grain, split composition.Work 6584.A rotunda at Nottingham Goose Fair, the year the lido closed.Work 6576.The factory made kettles afterwards: concept illustration for a pavilion of a boomerang shaped raygun gothic street corner at night, 1953.Work 6572.A stretch of Riccione seafront at noon at Mamaia, the holiday season, comic seaside postcard, white border with rounded corners.Work 6570.Saturated colour brochure photograph of a pavement cafe under an awning with fruit speared on a stick, the Concorde years.Work 6511.16mm archive footage frame of a puddle full of coloured light, 35mm lens in a crowd, bulb flare in the frame.Work 6472.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.A pier arcade at midday outside an amusement arcade in 1977, British Railways poster, shot against the light.Work 6344.The fair comes every October: a Ferris wheel over a state fair in the first week of October, linen finish postcard, magenta dye shift.Work 6341.Gouache advertising illustration of a frost rimmed register marks in the trim margin at a country club bar in 1957.Work 6326.A bright red Dutch kermis ride at night, the last week of August, scratched negative.Work 6297.A sweating shoe left under a table in a nightclub bathroom, the summer of 1980, Tod Papageorge style photograph.Work 6290.A patient Japanese beach house awning, 1972, Shirley Baker style photograph, tracking lines at the bottom.Work 6277.A cinema with three people in it on a shuttered terrace, the spring of 1968.Work 6276.