The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The headline never ran: a couple on a sailboat rail taking spray in the late 1950s, Life magazine style full page, fading in the yellow dye layer.Work 6106.My mother took this: a high-rise hotel behind the beach in the wakes weeks, David Hurn style photograph, light leak at the cartridge change.Work 6087.A sky full of starlings over a pier, black and white, motion blur.Work 6080.1970, a rowing boat pulled up on shingle between two breakwaters, Kodacolor-X print, whip pan across the beach.Work 6067.A stoical sanatorium staircase down to the sea, the wakes weeks, flying spot scanner transfer.Work 6018.Room 14: 110 format print of a chlorine-bleached rectangular pool seen from a balcony, the last week of August.Work 6014.A unidentified sandcastle with a paper flag, 1962, flat overcast light.Work 6008.A streamlined zigzag parapet against a flat sky in the summer of 1937, macro close up of a tin joint, four colour halftone on pulp paper.Work 5994.Prices shown are per person: a wing over a turquoise lagoon in 1967, silkscreened travel poster, six by six transparency from a Hasselblad.Work 5985.A poster of a liner seen from the waterline in a Pullman dining car, airbrushed on illustration board, overcast light on white stucco, rotogravure printing.Work 5982.The hotel opened two seasons late: a tall drink with a paper parasol in the Intourist years, national tourist office poster, thirty five millimetre slide in a mount.Work 5979.Aerial photograph of a cistern of green water in the far side of the collapse, overexposed by one stop.Work 5978.Faded Ektacolor print of a chain-link gate left open, Kodacolor II, thumbprint in the corner.Work 5976.A hot sauce collection in the style of a sea anemone catching a shrimp beside a refinery on the horizon, the spring of 1969.Work 5948.A Casablanca balcony with a wrought iron grille, the year of the Paris exposition, mosaic panel in glass tesserae, neon burning out the highlights.Work 5941.A couple sheltering under a coat in a red bathing cap, the space race, patent illustration in line, salt haze.Work 5935.Colour gravure travel supplement of a duty free deck quoits on a liner beside a swim up bar at noon in the Intourist years.Work 5924.Studio portrait with a painted backdrop of a parlourmaid at the edge of frame plugged into a megastructure core, the season of 1958, flat even overcast light.Work 5919.A stoical sand-covered sanatorium terrace above the sea, the school holidays, amateur cine club film frame, sea spray on the lens.Work 5913.A second-hand no diving sign on a post in the last of the light, the bicentennial summer, lifestyle advertisement photograph.Work 5910.1970, a bandstand with nobody in it at Weston-super-Mare, Agfacolor negative, grain heavy in the shadows.Work 5903.A stamped line of stones laid across a moor, 1975, exhibition view, blueprint process.Work 5902.Architectural record photograph of a coffered glass curtain wall reflecting cloud at the foot of a stair tower in the year before demolition.Work 5899.Large format survey photograph of a northern bald ibis on wet sand at low tide, Adox Silvermax 100, scratched negative printed as found.Work 5898.A beach hut door open to the sea beside a boating lake in the summer of 1976, David Hurn style photograph, orange fade of an old print.Work 5881.An unsigned sarong, New Year 1920, Ilford HP4.Work 5874.1960: found footage still of a kite over the dunes at the water's edge.Work 5852.A lighthouse on a clear day, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows.Work 5850.A souk alley hung with lamps in a bamboo lounge hung with tapa cloth in the jet age, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement, fingerprint on a transparency corner.Work 5846.A steel band on a hotel terrace with a lei around the neck, the early 1950s, souvenir folder of views, Rolleiflex twin lens on a tripod.Work 5843.