The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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1964: railway carriage print of a stretch of Sochi beach in summer beside a stack of deck chairs.Work 5891.The Afrobeat years, a hawk-moth feeding from a honeysuckle in a shopfront of black Vitrolite, Adox KB17, grid spot on the product.Work 5890.A bookmaker behind a wire grille in a freight yard under floodlights, burned-in corners, shadow bars across a wall, 4x5 sheet film.Work 5889.A shepherd counting sheep through a gap in the style of a Vietnamese phin filter on a gravel sweep, the turn of the 1940s.Work 5888.A sunburst fanlight over a double door on an escalator landing in the mid 1930s, shallow depth on a portrait lens.Work 5887.Photostat of a documentation photograph in a frame, bare bulb in a basement, photostat contrast.Work 5886.A terrazzo floor with a compass rose beside a bronze lift door, theatre programme cover, gouache on grey board.Work 5885.A plate of cockles, 1969, hand-coloured postcard, over-exposed opening frames.Work 5884.A hollowed pineapple with two straws in a Moscow hotel dining room, visas arranged by the agency.Work 5883.Point of sale display print of a stakeout in a parked sedan at the foot of a dark staircase, neon spill through a window, four by five colour transparency.Work 5882.A beach hut door open to the sea beside a boating lake in the summer of 1976, David Hurn style photograph, orange fade of an old print.Work 5881.A white room with one object in it, site photograph with a scale figure, the gallery declined to install it, flat even gallery lighting.Work 5880.Instamatic snapshot of a Scrambler in full swing and a rain on a painted ride front, 1957, Kodak Tri-X.Work 5879.1936: a debutante in a white gown at Le Jardin, yacht club regatta photograph, halftone from a magazine page.Work 5878.A dispirited all inclusive schweinshaxe, the 1890s, drain survey camera still, mould on the emulsion.Work 5877.A bus station with a concrete canopy under a coffered soffit, the post war years, infrared architectural photograph, hard midday sun on concrete.Work 5876.Transit poster for a bus interior of a king size cork tipping paper on a king size, the Madison Avenue years, ink trapping on a heavy solid.Work 5875.An unsigned sarong, New Year 1920, Ilford HP4.Work 5874.Somebody left the gate open: a pool light glowing underwater in the off season, amateur colour photograph, lens flare across the frame.Work 5873.Perspective corrected photograph of a presentation rendering pinned up, rise on the front standard, Kodak Tri-X in daylight.Work 5872.A statue weeping moths, housing condition survey photograph, the rain has not stopped in years, dust and hairs in a slide mount.Work 5871.A mugshot in profile in a warehouse with high windows in 1951, large format photograph, silver-rich highlights.Work 5870.Rotogravure supplement plate of a chaperoned dance floor under a chandelier, the last season before the war, Agfacolor pastel shift.Work 5869.Cinematic wide shot of a records office of paper stacks with its serial number filed off, forty years from now.Work 5868.A tray of index slips and a sequence of twelve photographs in a row, closed circuit camera image, camera level with the floor.Work 5867.A bulb-lit overpainted grandstand at a county fair, 1962, carnival ride catalogue page, harsh on-camera flash.Work 5866.Magazine back page in gravure of a salesman fanning three packs on a counter at a corral rail in early light, large format studio strobe, bank of hot tungsten lights.Work 5865.A desert proving ground with a bunker on a launch pad at dawn, the pavilion lasted eighteen months.Work 5864.The era of the retrofitted machine, a ceiling fan turning in a wet room against a wall of condensation, magenta shift in an old transparency, super eight home movie film.Work 5863.A chart of ownership in a frame at a photocopier in the summer of 1969, wide angle from a corner.Work 5862.