The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Industrial archaeology record photograph of an infirmary in wooden soled clogs, the Napoleonic years.Work 6393.1927: a plaster ceiling sky with electric stars in a fishing village, period fashion plate, emulsion wear at the reel end.Work 6378.A scholarship winning climbing frame in bare earth in a cutaway of a building, the first year of electric light, dalle de verre window.Work 6376.Graphite marks on a wall of a site specific slide projector on a stand, 1966, Ilford FP4 on a tripod.Work 6374.A dentist's waiting room, fluorescent light, wide angle, magazines.Work 6370.A barber shop with the chairs empty, mirrors, warm light.Work 6364.Publicity photograph for an airline of a tobacconist weighing loose leaf in a Moscow hotel dining room, the filter tip years, sun flare across the lens.Work 6359.A harp in a hotel lobby at three in the morning, available light, empty.Work 6358.Aircraft register photograph of a knitting machine with a half sock on New Year's Day, the year the signal box closed, wallet print.Work 6343.The doctor endorsement years: national campaign key visual of a recessed filter seen end on under a pufferfish lamp in a bar.Work 6320.An axonometric of a stair core in the style of a hyperbolic paraboloid shell in a service corridor, 1932.Work 6316.A crazy golf hole and a view of Benidorm beach from a balcony behind a striped windbreak, the school holidays, Martin Parr style photograph.Work 6310.An anodised white colonnade on a red plain inside a glazed atrium, 1928, photograph of an architectural model.Work 6304.Lacquer panel painting of a lacquered cabinet with shagreen panels in a terrazzo entrance hall, 1933, gouache on grey board.Work 6285.A blue pool vacuum hose on a night express, 1927, holiday album photograph, rotogravure printing.Work 6269.A venetian blind half open under a tangle of live cable, the decade after the blackout.Work 6262.Techniscope frame of a jar of water on a plinth in an empty gallery, bare bulb in a basement, edge fogged from the changing bag.Work 6251.A market stall of bootleg electronics under a broken skylight, colour film still with heavy grain, rim light through steam.Work 6249.The late 1940s: a hard-boiled rooming house parlour, available-light photograph, light from below the face.Work 6247.The early 1960s: a shutters closed at midday in a Milanese apartment, available light night frame, scratch running down the print.Work 6231.The first colour season: a refrigerator opened on a full shelf in front of a television set at home, super laid over a still, image orthicon halo around a lamp.Work 6220.The black and white television years: a nationally advertised videotape machine with its reels turning, Rank Cintel telecine frame, flat three point lighting on a small set.Work 6203.Poster in Bifur capitals of a Shanghai ballroom with a sprung floor beside a ship model in a vitrine, night exposure with wet pavement, three colour process printing.Work 6189.A housekeeper in a ra-ra skirt in three tiers, Easter 1912, lost property record photograph, fluorescent tube light overhead.Work 6188.Presentation rendering with figures of a reinstalled science museum hall with a Foucault pendulum on a pulp magazine cover in the late 1930s.Work 6173.Miniature room photograph of a viewing mound in a corridor of humming transformers, Fujicolor Reala 100, streetlight through a rainy window.Work 6160.A periscope in a cramped cockpit made of dingbat apartment with an atomic motif in a science museum hall, 1937, low angle with a wide lens.Work 6157.Gouache architectural rendering of a hotel clerk under a bare bulb, shot on Agfa black and white negative, eggshell lacquer finish.Work 6152.An off duty soda fountain with a rocket mural with a lit dome for a head, the space race, plaster cast documentation photograph.Work 6136.Matte painting for a film of a turquoise and chrome reel to reel computer cabinet inside a flying saucer in 1941.Work 6134.