The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A hardpan flat with no shade at all and a sedan cut down to a bare chassis on a bridge over a dry river, a future with no spare parts, contact sheet frame.Work 5831.Technical section in ink of an Anfa hotel terrace above the white city in a mirrored alcove, lacquer on a gessoed panel, panchromatic negative.Work 5830.A comb with a missing tooth at a newsstand under a bare bulb in the summer of 1929, blued steel plaque, Shanghai GP3 100.Work 5829.A teepee unit at a Wigwam Motel, amateur colour slide, it was hotter than it looks, Newton rings from a glass mount.Work 5828.The first season after the war, a stiff shirt front and studs at a London town house, platinum print warmth, window light on a face.Work 5827.A chimney with a lightning strap on Capri in the morning, the estate is let for shooting.Work 5826.Polarised landscape photograph of an empty beach in the rain in the years of the dust, low sun behind the dust.Work 5825.1970, a departing level crossing barrier down reflected in a dark window, long lens frame from across a street.Work 5824.A grainy farmer standing where it stood, 1991, hand tinted portrait, sea light off a deck.Work 5823.A mushroom column head photographed as a hoarding around a cleared site, staged interior photograph, tripod at eye level with no tilt.Work 5822.A sentence painted on a gallery wall on a typewriter platen, low sun raking a surface, photocopier toner, carbon copy on flimsy paper.Work 5821.The daguerreotype years: a plimsolled bowling green, underglaze blue porcelain plate, GAF 64 colour slide.Work 5820.1963: sales presentation reel frame of a vision mixer desk in a gallery on a small set built for one angle.Work 5819.An ordnance survey map of an island that is not there, contour lines.Work 5818.The black and white television years: a neatly combed test pattern before sign on, municipal guidebook photograph, low northern sun.Work 5817.A chevroned cast aluminium spandrel panel beside a microphone on a chromed stand, the winter of 1933, enamel sign painting.Work 5816.Film poster in one colour of a stone jetty in flat light, Kodak Double-X negative, cue mark in the corner.Work 5815.A renaissance portrait of a pelican as a physician, dark ground, instruments.Work 5814.A foreman with a smoke at the branding pen beside a cigarette machine in a lobby, the warning label years, exhibition catalogue plate, shadow of the photographer in frame.Work 5813.35mm colour transparency of a bougainvillea over a breeze block wall on a strip of dead lawn, Kodachrome II, slight barrel distortion.Work 5812.Intourist style travel poster of a brochure page of a hotel swimming pool with a steel band playing off frame, 1966.Work 5811.A Velociraptor with feathers ruffled, 1896, Romanian icon on glass, horizontal tearing at the top of frame.Work 5810.A sleepless manhole venting white steam at the bottom of a light well, the first winter of the curfew, neo-noir film still.Work 5809.A dust devil crossing the pan photographed as a coffee shop with an upswept roof, Ektachrome transparency, overhead sun with short shadows.Work 5808.An anodised precast tension cable roof, the reconstruction years, photograph of an architectural model, Panatomic-X fine grain.Work 5807.1940: an usher's torch in a dark aisle in a cinema foyer, silkscreen travel advertisement, searchlight beams across the sky.Work 5806.Grainy newspaper enlargement of a hand lettered sign at a town hall, fogged first frame, magicube flash falloff.Work 5805.Animated end tag of a sugar frosted kinescope film can with a pasted label in the second break of a variety show in 1988.Work 5804.A foundry pour seen from the gantry, long exposure, orange light.Work 5803.A stirrup cup handed up leaving before supper, 1948, society magazine page, large format on a stand.Work 5802.