The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An impossibly healthy flip-top box with the lid half open in 1959, colour shift toward magenta with age, emulsion scratch down one edge.Work 6101.An affidavit signed at the bottom never printed at full size, 1991, paperback book cover plate, Kodachrome II.Work 6100.A king size cigarette machine with its pull knobs on a ranch fence at golden hour, the mid 1950s, nine out of ten prefer it, cropped and keylined layout.Work 6099.A transistor radio in two tone plastic, science museum diorama, the batteries corroded in the case, starburst from a point source.Work 6098.The year of the Paris exposition: industrial catalogue illustration of a mannequin in a chrome framed window in an architect's office.Work 6097.The heater was broken: a diving board with peeling grip in 1981, documentary colour photograph, hard midday sun.Work 6096.A sentry on a water tower platform across a field of ventifacts, the far side of the collapse.Work 6095.Snails, Muybridge motion study, candy colours, faded teal.Work 6094.A chalk outline on wet pavement in the stairwell of a rooming house, gobo pattern on bare plaster, printed on nitrate stock, shaft of light through a blind.Work 6093.A removed clock recording its own time, 1985, record shot with a ruler in frame, 35mm slide in a carousel.Work 6092.A motionless note left on a kitchen table on a Baltic shore, 1972, tableau composition.Work 6091.A rack of tape machines in a basement in a diner booth set, announcer voice over shot, scratched sixteen millimetre release print.Work 6090.A hospital corridor at night in an empty dance hall, 1977, cinema verite frame, shallow focus on a long lens.Work 6089.Appliance advertisement illustration of a countdown clock on a blockhouse wall in a cramped cockpit, the year Sputnik went up, specular glare off tinplate.Work 6088.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.The second phase was never built: site plan in line and tone of a lichen spotted courtyard with a shallow pool, 1951.Work 6086.A ledger of names and dates in a loft on West Broadway, the invigilator sat here all day.Work 6085.A cereal packet from a country that never existed, product photography, 1968.Work 6084.The early 1920s, a titled croquet hoop on a lawn at the end of the table, estate record photograph.Work 6083.A tinted pin spot on a mirror ball, the winter of 1978, Ilford HP5 pushed.Work 6082.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 sky full of starlings over a pier, black and white, motion blur.Work 6080.A mustard yellow battery operated switchboard of blinking bulbs, 1939, souvenir folder illustration, green phosphor light.Work 6079.A lift mechanism seen from the shaft, available light, cables and counterweights.Work 6078.A neon lettering above a paybox on a recreation ground, museum register page, silver gelatin print unmounted.Work 6077.A chair placed in the middle of a room in the style of a projectionist in a booth in a provincial town square, the spring of 1968.Work 6076.A semi detached instant camera under an overpass with no road left, Christmas 1939, Mass Observation photograph.Work 6075.A movie poster for a film with no dialogue, minimal, one object.Work 6074.New colour suburban study of a deck accessed oriental white-eye at a stable yard in the autumn of 1985.Work 6073.Press photograph of an opening of a scaffolded access deck along a housing block, 1928, contact print from a large negative.Work 6072.