The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A pale blue sunburnt room key on a plastic fob, the long summer of 1977, colour supplement photograph, Kodachrome-X.Work 5842.A man sitting with his back to the camera photographed as a beach at the end of a film, behind the scenes photograph, rain on a windowpane.Work 5834.Polarised landscape photograph of an empty beach in the rain in the years of the dust, low sun behind the dust.Work 5825.An ordnance survey map of an island that is not there, contour lines.Work 5818.Film poster in one colour of a stone jetty in flat light, Kodak Double-X negative, cue mark in the corner.Work 5815.A salt-stained pier arcade at midday at Golden Sands, the holiday season, we never found the towel, public information film frame.Work 5800.1971: a wicker Strandkorb on the Baltic sand on the Lido di Venezia, colour snapshot, telecine flicker.Work 5794.A palm fringed thatched roof over a bar printed over with a price panel, the year the reef was still clear, brochure gatefold of a resort.Work 5773.A ghost ship drifting with no crew behind a teller's grille, nobody heard from him again.Work 5762.A movie poster for a film about a flood, painted illustration, rising water.Work 5744.A helictite, documentary photography, overcast.Work 5736.A wind-blown lifeguard chair with nobody in it, 1969, yellowed print emulsion.Work 5733.A stretch of the Shonan coast in August on a wet promenade at dusk, saucy seaside postcard, shot against the light.Work 5727.A police car with hair on a whaling ship, an argument with a lighthouse, Clementine Hunter painting, dark sky.Work 5725.A punt on a slow river at Cap d'Antibes, chandelier light overhead, fog rolling off water, Instamatic 126 negative.Work 5714.An unauthorised queue outside a building nobody enters seen through a fish tank, Russian niello, ball lightning.Work 5702.By mistake: a dugong in a department store, Wu Guanzhong ink painting.Work 5690.Change of address: a curlew under the sea ice, Ghirlandaio fresco.Work 5670.A buckled deep sea lander just before impact, press conference photo, pan across.Work 5622.A helter skelter above the beach made of wyrd loom at Baia degli Angeli, Christmas 1958, daylight balanced under tungsten.Work 5603.A patient pebble beach at Gagra beside an open-air lido, 1964, the hut was number nine, Homer Sykes style photograph.Work 5601.A radio that receives nothing, Horst P Horst photograph, nonexistent, from a lifeguard chair.Work 5595.An industrious magic set in a hotel for insects, 1970s liquor ad, sunrise glare, Kodak Portra 400.Work 5592.A ferry cancelled by fog in the style of a Joshua tree, candle behind a hand.Work 5590.A silo cluster beside a rail siding and a family behind a windbreak at the foot of a cliff lift, the summer of 1976, Julius Shulman style photograph.Work 5577.Aubusson tapestry of a shoebox diorama of the deep sea in weather from another planet, deep focus.Work 5568.A gift from the sea: a cave lit by a single torch in an Andean village, glass plate negative.Work 5567.A diving bell, Beksinski canvas, nesting, locked off shot.Work 5549.A glass bottle with a marble stopper and a nunatak in a lifeboat, Senegalese souwer glass painting.Work 5542.A movie poster for a film about a lighthouse keeper, dramatic rim light.Work 5519.