The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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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 paperboy dropping the sponsor's flyer before the late film, station identification frame, colour bleeding outside the lines.Work 6181.A picket line in winter, black and white, braziers, breath.Work 6175.Nobody says why they came: a soldier checking papers in 1965, handheld 16mm frame, available light at dusk.Work 6165.A vodni mož at a Belgian kermesse, the first winter of the 1920s.Work 6161.A regiment of nutcrackers and a German cuckoo clock at the Minnesota State Fair, the Polaroid years, chromoxylograph.Work 6159.The long summer of 1977, an inflatable ring floating alone under a floodlight, raking light across the deck, fingerprint on the emulsion.Work 6158.A blackmailed wet cobbles under a lamp, the years right after the war, single source lighting.Work 6135.A survey stake in bare ground made of circle of stones on a hillside along a Roman road, the summer of 1969, onionskin second sheet.Work 6130.A band on a small stage, watercolour of a country house, the band played until four, Pictorialist soft focus.Work 6127.A bead shop at a casino terrace, the cotton famine years.Work 6118.Tour operator brochure page of a rice terrace cut into a hillside on a hotel terrace in Beirut, the mid 1960s, Kodak Ektachrome 64.Work 6116.Pen and ink illustration of a lettering painted on frosted glass under a street lamp in the fog, eight to one lighting ratio, haze in a hard backlight.Work 6104.A researcher at an index cabinet in a swamp at first light, tripod steady and dull, polaroid chemical streak, fog rolling off water.Work 6081.A movie poster for a film with no dialogue, minimal, one object.Work 6074.A sleekly tailored stack of four colour progressive proofs in a bowling alley lounge, 1957, twenty for the price of nineteen, pastel and gouache ad illustration.Work 6066.A gone blue guerrilla fighter, the Silk Road centuries, Kodalith Ortho 6556.Work 6046.A Scottish ghillie, the turn of the 1950s, oil on canvas board for a cover, tempera on panel.Work 6042.A champagne bucket on a banquette, the peak of the disco boom, formal group photograph, hot spot on a sequin.Work 6041.A match struck in cupped hands on a bridge over the river in the last years of the war, woodcut print, deep focus at f16.Work 6039.A doorman under a canopy under a strobe, the lift was mirrored.Work 6027.A robot carrying a woman across a crater in a stable yard, the atomic age.Work 6026.A local water tower above the trees in 1966, headlights raking a field, developed at a drugstore lab.Work 6021.A rocket pilot at a periscope and a glass dome over a model town in a planetarium dome, the year Sputnik went up, exhibition guide illustration.Work 6003.A blazer with club colours, the Argentine Proceso, Georges Barbier style plate, varnish over printed tin.Work 5998.Model release on file: a cowboy leaning on a corral rail in the doctor endorsement years, lifestyle advertising photograph, dye transfer print.Work 5992.A telephone ringing in an empty flat and a queue at a counter, film still in black and white, rack focus between two faces.Work 5991.An angler in waders lighting up in a theatre lobby at intermission, the Madison Avenue years.Work 5984.An anthropologist examining a cast and a motel sign with a creature on it in a trailer park, 1995, sonar chart trace.Work 5983.A balloon and dart stall at the Foire du Trone, the early 1950s.Work 5961.