The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The autumn of 1953: a newly bereaved Greek presidential guard marching, zoopraxiscope disc, window light through net curtains.Work 6463.An orange and brown long black, the summer of 1913, 828 Bantam format.Work 6458.A shadowed detective with his hat pushed back out in the rain with no hat, the 1940s, mezzotint.Work 6442.A neon lit face at the door being refused, the mid 1930s, technical section in ink, rotogravure printing.Work 6439.A gentleman in white tie made of marquee on a lawn at Newport in the season, the first season after the war, slight motion in the hands.Work 6432.1936, an underdressed tender coming alongside with the sea behind, Rolleiflex portrait.Work 6424.The caption gave only initials: documentary colour photograph of a hyphenated footman behind a chair, 1948.Work 6404.A flip-top box with the lid half open in a hotel cocktail lounge, 1956.Work 6401.An enforcer in a double-breasted suit in a pawnshop window in the mid 1940s, monochrome film still, Cooke Speed Panchro lens.Work 6400.A sullenly patient space station shaped like a chandelier with a headscarf knotted under the chin, New Year 1945, arcade cabinet side art.Work 6373.Photocopier art of an Arctic hare standing on hind legs in bleached spikes and a studded belt, the age of the pager.Work 6365.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands.Work 6349.A crack running through the deck photographed as a bottle of Coppertone, William Eggleston style photograph, Eastman 5254 negative.Work 6347.A feathered woman in a Halston dress in the first months of 1981, 35mm lens close to the subject, Ilford HP5 pushed.Work 6336.Matchbook illustration of a man in a white three-piece suit in the last light of a strobe, the first months of 1981, bare bulb flash head.Work 6318.A woman smoking alone on an island in the Baltic in the spring of 1968, anamorphic flare across the frame.Work 6312.Fluxus printed multiple of an attendant standing by a door in the late 1970s, print trimmed square.Work 6302.Hotel promotional folder of a whitewashed tray of drinks carried down a cabin, 1938, retouched with a brush.Work 6293.Yacht club regatta photograph of a long white glove past the elbow in a red coat, 1926.Work 6266.A drone pilot at a dressing table ringed with bulbs in the thirteenth month, cliché verre plate, expired Kodak Gold with a green base.Work 6260.1979, a sugar frosted colour bars with a tone in the corner while the announcer keeps talking, safe title area framing.Work 6259.Ancestral portrait of an unamused debutante's first waltz, 1924, tungsten light in a studio.Work 6253.The late 1940s: a hard-boiled rooming house parlour, available-light photograph, light from below the face.Work 6247.A bathing costume drying on a wall, 1969, Italian beach club poster, orange fade of an old print.Work 6246.1865, a self conscious Amphicyon in a lurex jumpsuit under the lights, tin glazed earthenware dish.Work 6239.A top hat carried under an arm and a freeze frame on a smiling family, sign on test pattern frame, flying spot scanner highlight flare.Work 6237.A night shift museum of curiosities, the Ptolemaic years, Adox NC 17 colour negative.Work 6225.A row of fruit machines, 1978, town guide photograph, tape dropout across the frame.Work 6210.The marquee was up for three days: full length portrait in oils of an unamused three ostrich feathers in the hair, 1924.Work 6194.A housekeeper in a ra-ra skirt in three tiers, Easter 1912, lost property record photograph, fluorescent tube light overhead.Work 6188.