The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A wind moving a curtain on an unmade road in the late 1960s, streetlight on wet stone.Work 6191.Announcement poster in one colour of a blank reel to reel machine on a table, 1968, deliberately uncorrected.Work 6190.Poster in Bifur capitals of a Shanghai ballroom with a sprung floor beside a ship model in a vitrine, night exposure with wet pavement, three colour process printing.Work 6189.A housekeeper in a ra-ra skirt in three tiers, Easter 1912, lost property record photograph, fluorescent tube light overhead.Work 6188.A top lit verandah along a modernist school in 1932, selenium toned print, fill flash in a dark lobby.Work 6187.MacPaint dither of an airlock hatch in a period known only by its weather, spotted with a fine brush.Work 6186.Travel film frame in sixteen millimetre of a lei placed over a traveller's neck in the late 1960s, Nikon F with a fifty millimetre lens.Work 6185.A pier in low cloud behind a windbreak, 1972, 8mm home movie still, glare off wet sand.Work 6184.A rocket with a checkerboard tail made of flying saucer on landing legs at a periscope, the late 1930s, Technicolor three strip.Work 6183.A poorly lit akhlut, the Spanish Civil War years, wardrobe test Polaroid, a minute by streetlight.Work 6182.A paperboy dropping the sponsor's flyer before the late film, station identification frame, colour bleeding outside the lines.Work 6181.A cornered press photographer with a flash gun, 1956, extreme low camera angle.Work 6180.Postwar reconstruction photograph of a circus building with a ribbed dome, bracketed exposure for the interior, dusk exposure with the lights on.Work 6179.The lights went out at eleven: tourist brochure photograph of an out of season statue in a park in winter, 1977.Work 6178.Feather mosaic of a cocktail garnished with a flower in a sheepskin coat with the fleece showing, the golden age of radio.Work 6177.A depth charge, the Rome Olympics year, Paubha painting, existing light.Work 6176.A picket line in winter, black and white, braziers, breath.Work 6175.A loupe over a strip of negatives, slide projected on a wall, the negative has gone missing, headlights raking a field.Work 6174.Presentation rendering with figures of a reinstalled science museum hall with a Foucault pendulum on a pulp magazine cover in the late 1930s.Work 6173.A marquee with three tiers of bulbs, mosaic panel in glass tesserae, the cinema is a furniture shop now, low key studio lighting.Work 6172.A ribbed vault of precast units on a car park roof in the year before demolition, scanned from a faded transparency.Work 6171.A register marks in the trim margin in a supper club booth in the mid 1950s, doctor endorsement advertisement, rim light on the hair.Work 6170.A river steamer with a sun deck and a price panel at the back of a brochure, lithographed travel poster, oversaturated brochure colour.Work 6169.Kodachrome advertising photograph of a robot with a rotating antenna with an atom for a logo, the year Sputnik went up.Work 6168.Symmetrical static composition of an unexplained window of a moving train, 1975, Technicolor dye transfer print.Work 6167.Flashed glass roundel of an eel made of neon tubing on a boat train platform, 1942, polished black glass with a reflection.Work 6166.Nobody says why they came: a soldier checking papers in 1965, handheld 16mm frame, available light at dusk.Work 6165.Two days before we left: a pool cover half rolled back in the long summer of 1977, faded holiday snapshot, chromatic fringing on the coping.Work 6164.An usherette with a tray of cigarettes on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1940, stylised mural in flattened perspective, splice flash in a home movie.Work 6163.Video monitor image of a spiral of rock in a shallow lake, Polaroid taken as a record, Ilford FP4 on a tripod.Work 6162.