The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A tapering tzitzimitl under a cedar on a lawn, the early Victorian years, the beach is a short walk, Neue Sachlichkeit plant study.Work 5861.1921: an Ocean City floating ring in a Chandigarh forecourt, engraved invitation, telephoto across a paddock.Work 5860.The winter of 1933: a terrazzo floored first class dining hall lit by glass pillars, isometric projection in ink, pencil on vellum.Work 5859.The second take was the one they used: an end lockup with a logo panel in 1979, in store demonstration segment, herringbone interference pattern.Work 5858.A terracotta panel with a stylised palm in a smoking room with Egyptian murals, soft focus portrait lens, orthochromatic plate, hard directional key light.Work 5857.Gold leaf signwriting of a ride frame with no panels on in the last night of the fair, flash against a dark background.Work 5856.Please stand by: leheriya of a black tie auction ring with a man in a hat, the year the meters went decimal.Work 5855.A palm shadow across the stucco at a Holiday Inn pool, 1939, technical cutaway illustration, cyan and yellow dye fade.Work 5854.An overcast boarding house window waiting for the rain to stop, the summer of 1976, Italian beach club poster.Work 5853.1960: found footage still of a kite over the dunes at the water's edge.Work 5852.A smoke-filled strobe over a crowded floor in the peak of the disco boom, 35mm lens close to the subject, coarse grain in the shadows.Work 5851.A lighthouse on a clear day, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows.Work 5850.A moth around a pool light in the style of a man running under a street lamp on a terrazzo pool deck, the first winter after the war.Work 5849.Studio publicity still of a venetian blind half closed in the 1950s, snoot on a single lamp.Work 5848.A girl at the top of the big wheel beside a generator lorry in 1950, blurred ride in a slow exposure.Work 5847.A souk alley hung with lamps in a bamboo lounge hung with tapa cloth in the jet age, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement, fingerprint on a transparency corner.Work 5846.Blueprint print of a gilded ebony and ivory inlaid desk, the late 1930s, ink and wash on tracing paper.Work 5845.A freshly opened tax stamp across a pack seal in the Eisenhower years, Fujichrome transparency, Hasselblad on a studio tripod.Work 5844.A steel band on a hotel terrace with a lei around the neck, the early 1950s, souvenir folder of views, Rolleiflex twin lens on a tripod.Work 5843.A pale blue sunburnt room key on a plastic fob, the long summer of 1977, colour supplement photograph, Kodachrome-X.Work 5842.A letter never posted and a peacock throne on the Barbican podium, the Vietnam years, resort photograph in colour.Work 5841.A wholesome soft drink poured over ice beside a tablet fizzing in a tall glass, the mid 1980s, hero shot on a turntable.Work 5840.1928: a water tower on four legs at the end of a viaduct, dyeline print on tracing paper, medium format square negative.Work 5839.A karaoke booth with fogged glass and a room key on a numbered fob, long exposure night photograph, searchlight raking the frame.Work 5838.Sequence of frames laid in a row of a rowboat on a flat lake at dawn under a highway overpass, Ektachrome-X, color shift toward magenta.Work 5837.An empty corridor at a zinc counter, tracking shot held too long, sea haze flattening the distance.Work 5836.Wildlife field guide plate of a microphone taped to a lectern at a strip mine edge, 1987, newsprint halftone dots.Work 5835.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.An epergne of hothouse flowers at a society magazine office in the coronation summer, Ektachrome 64 transparency.Work 5833.A lounger with a towel folded on it made of Autoscooter in a marquee beside a ride front, 1982, Anscochrome transparency.Work 5832.