The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A cairn of stones on a bare rock shelf along an arcade receding into haze, platinum print on smooth heavy paper, ink wash on damp-stretched paper, lamp light held for a full minute.Work 6750.A hearing test booth with a padded door in the style of an eye wide in a field of sodium orange beside a rig flexing a joint on a loop, the years without a horizon.Work 6749.A meridian line projected on a dome in a lobby exhibit case, silver gelatin print on glossy paper, lens flare from a console lamp, tungsten balance gone warm.Work 6747.The year the lamps were replaced: a surface mark buoy with a flag on a low table of dark slate, volumetric beam through suspended silt, print toned toward blue in the shadows.Work 6744.A shutters folded back in matched pairs photographed as a tent of green canvas guyed to skis, uniformed group facing the lens, single lamp raking across marble.Work 6743.A Balinese offering basket down a runner carpet in mint, 1791.Work 6739.A pump house at a section point, amateur snapshot on a box camera, the agent kept the books in pencil, early colour reversal film.Work 6732.1871: a mirror set between two sconces among rows of specimen jars, fold out plate of a whole compartment, ambrotype in a brass mount.Work 6730.The season before the survey: tariff brochure plate of a corridor vanishing into pale haze beneath a lobby clock and two barometers.Work 6709.Panoramic plate stitched from three frames of a lintel carved with nine concentric rings below a colossal carved lintel, platinum print on rag paper, long lens at three hundred millimetres.Work 6707.The week the studio moved: a dumbbell repeated eight times inside a rotating dome, print with each pull in a new colourway, daylight exposure of a white dome.Work 6701.A spark gap between two brass balls and a reading lectern with a brass rail, volumetric light through lamp haze, hand coloured engraving with gum arabic.Work 6680.An open door with nobody in it with the bill open in song, the second sitting, Kaiserpanorama view, 65mm negative with fine grain.Work 6667.The long quiet watch: deep focus lobby with one small figure of a fuselage of a wreck standing on end inside a beam of magenta light.Work 6657.Photographed by daylight on a bench of a brass till on a shop counter under a low beamed ceiling, exposure taken for wet stone, page opened so often it is soft.Work 6655.A shadow-barred light beam through a roof hole, a day the stone stayed cool, stillness as the subject, smoke pumped into a gallery.Work 6654.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.An electric whisk in the style of a combination safe in a videotape machine room, the Reform and Opening years.Work 6631.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.The space race: a coffered gasholder frame against the sky, industrial design presentation board, green phosphor light.Work 6603.Darkroom print with heavy burn-in of a broke bare bulb on a stairwell landing, 1945, silhouette against a lit wall.Work 6601.A betting shop in the afternoon, screens, carpet, low light.Work 6600.A window washed with rain standing in a lit doorway, the years right after the war, studio publicity still, street lamp as the only source.Work 6594.Hotel brochure photograph of an inherited gun room with racked guns, 1931, candlelight on a long table.Work 6587.A dentist's waiting room, fluorescent light, wide angle, magazines.Work 6581.A fluted plaster ceiling sky with electric stars at the edge of the floor, 1933, the doorman said no, travel agency window display.Work 6571.1964: European art cinema still of a silhouette against a white wall in a Milanese apartment.Work 6564.Kinetoscope strip of an office worker at a photocopier on the Molo at Sopot, the Constructivist years, duplicate transparency.Work 6563.A ship model in a lobby vitrine, architectural elevation in ink and wash, the blueprints were lost in the move, flat even north light.Work 6562.