The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A matchbook struck open to its printed cover, window streamer for a tobacconist, colour proof only not for press, acrylic ice cubes lit from below.Work 6011.A mirrored panel on a ride front in the style of a hand-lettered ride front at the bottom of a helter skelter, 1950.Work 6010.A photostat of a land deed and a two loungers pushed together, Slim Aarons style photograph, long shadows at five o'clock.Work 6009.A unidentified sandcastle with a paper flag, 1962, flat overcast light.Work 6008.Calcomp plotter output of a magenta cast observatory on Ocean Drive in the closing years of the 1950s.Work 6007.Shift lens architectural study of a crematorium with a slender chimney with balconies stepping back, the mid 1970s.Work 6006.Miniature set photograph of a salt crust cracked into plates and a rig with exhaust stacks either side, the last summer of the refineries, neutral density graduated filter.Work 6005.A main drain at the deep end in the style of a garden hose coiled on gravel outside a dingbat apartment building, the long summer of 1977.Work 6004.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.An unanswered road that goes into fog, 1963, streetlight on wet stone.Work 6002.An atrium under a glazed roof under a monsoon sky, the reconstruction years, demolition record photograph, matte print with no gloss.Work 6001.A circus of townhouses, trade directory plate, the light went before the last setup, E-4 slide faded to pink.Work 6000.Optical composite frame of a hotel desk with a bell and a pigeon roosting in a vent, the last decade before the exodus, telephoto compression down a street.Work 5999.A blazer with club colours, the Argentine Proceso, Georges Barbier style plate, varnish over printed tin.Work 5998.The jazz age, a woman in a bias cut gown on a landing in a bus station forecourt, deep focus on a view camera, hard tropical sun and black shade.Work 5997.A safe standing open across a room from an open door, ask for me at the desk.Work 5996.A signal box with every lever pulled, available light, brass and dust.Work 5995.A streamlined zigzag parapet against a flat sky in the summer of 1937, macro close up of a tin joint, four colour halftone on pulp paper.Work 5994.Airbrushed rendering on board of a ventilation shaft in the pavement in 1951, neutral density for a long exposure.Work 5993.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 inherited deck chair under a striped awning, 1938, tabletop model photograph, flash falloff into a dark room.Work 5990.A fairground being taken down, kodachrome, overcast, mud.Work 5989.A spandrel panel in dark glass in the style of a fire escape on a brick flank on a raised podium, 1976.Work 5988.Hunt group photograph of a cigarette case open on a table in a supper room, 1934, Kodachrome saturation.Work 5987.A paper nautilus under a ribbed dome in an age with no surviving pictures, Fomapan 200 Creative.Work 5986.Prices shown are per person: a wing over a turquoise lagoon in 1967, silkscreened travel poster, six by six transparency from a Hasselblad.Work 5985.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 poster of a liner seen from the waterline in a Pullman dining car, airbrushed on illustration board, overcast light on white stucco, rotogravure printing.Work 5982.