The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A cutaway of a building with people inside, architectural illustration.Work 6221.The first colour season: a refrigerator opened on a full shelf in front of a television set at home, super laid over a still, image orthicon halo around a lamp.Work 6220.16mm archive footage frame of a donkey waiting on the sand in the holiday season, Kodachrome 25 transparency.Work 6219.A temporary trench in a dry lake bed, 1981, faded to a yellow cast.Work 6218.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 steps with a rusting handrail beside a chain-link gate, the film sat in the camera a year.Work 6216.A seated man laughing alone, the spring of 1968, static wide frame, Academy ratio with soft corners.Work 6215.A Marenghi organ front against a black sky, 1950, vernacular photograph, magicube flash.Work 6214.A manhole steaming in the street at a window overlooking an alley, the first winter after the war, ink and wash illustration, natural light through a window.Work 6213.A whitewashed hotel on a cliff on a quay with fishing boats, publicity photograph for an airline, Hasselblad 500C on a beach.Work 6212.An electric eel stunning prey at Opatija in 1215, Adox KB21.Work 6211.A row of fruit machines, 1978, town guide photograph, tape dropout across the frame.Work 6210.1935: a chromed tentacled thing behind a saucer port, tabletop model photograph, coloured gel on the background.Work 6209.A blind throwing bars across a wall beside a vending machine in 1949, Ektachrome 64.Work 6208.A gravel sweep in front of a house made of place slip in copperplate at Gstaad in winter, 1948, long exposure indoors.Work 6207.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.Club logo in chrome lettering of a Lagos nightclub stage at a smoked glass table, the summer of 1979, harsh direct flash.Work 6205.A telegram pasted to a sheet on a hillside in Wales, certificate in a plain frame, flat even gallery lighting.Work 6204.The black and white television years: a nationally advertised videotape machine with its reels turning, Rank Cintel telecine frame, flat three point lighting on a small set.Work 6203.A robot toy still in its box over a model highway city, advertising illustration from a magazine, Kodachrome transparency.Work 6202.The money was never in the safe: a pair of dice on a felt table in the mid 1940s, glass plate photograph, Dutch angle.Work 6201.A Rolls-Royce on gravel on a private beach, 1934, press photograph of a ball, background painted out.Work 6200.An openly sulking patterned carpeted storm drain outfall, Easter 1968, gelatin silver print, available darkness.Work 6199.A stepped palm tree rendered as a chevron, 1933, publicity still from a picture palace, specular highlight on nickel.Work 6198.A pavilion with a cantilevered roof photographed as a saucer with a rim of lights, Amazing Stories cover illustration, shafts of light through a blind.Work 6197.An old fashioned glass sweating on a coaster on a hotel terrace above a harbour, the filter tip years.Work 6196.Northern industrial documentary photograph of an ice halo under a stepped tower crown, 1882, Svema CO-32D reversal.Work 6195.The marquee was up for three days: full length portrait in oils of an unamused three ostrich feathers in the hair, 1924.Work 6194.A reflection of a palm in the water and a pool party nobody came to beside an ice machine, the summer of 1976, Ed Ruscha style photograph.Work 6193.Telephoto photograph of an engine with zoomie headers and a mag wheel packed with white dust, a hundred summers from now, polarising filter on a deep sky.Work 6192.