The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Travel film frame in sixteen millimetre of a lei placed over a traveller's neck in the late 1960s, Nikon F with a fifty millimetre lens.Work 6185.A poorly lit akhlut, the Spanish Civil War years, wardrobe test Polaroid, a minute by streetlight.Work 6182.A cornered press photographer with a flash gun, 1956, extreme low camera angle.Work 6180.Feather mosaic of a cocktail garnished with a flower in a sheepskin coat with the fleece showing, the golden age of radio.Work 6177.A register marks in the trim margin in a supper club booth in the mid 1950s, doctor endorsement advertisement, rim light on the hair.Work 6170.An usherette with a tray of cigarettes on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1940, stylised mural in flattened perspective, splice flash in a home movie.Work 6163.A vodni mož at a Belgian kermesse, the first winter of the 1920s.Work 6161.A regiment of nutcrackers and a German cuckoo clock at the Minnesota State Fair, the Polaroid years, chromoxylograph.Work 6159.Gouache architectural rendering of a hotel clerk under a bare bulb, shot on Agfa black and white negative, eggshell lacquer finish.Work 6152.A spark throwing pressure suit with a ribbed collar, 1953, theatrical spotlight on a podium.Work 6145.A hi-fi console with the lid propped and a model with impossibly white teeth on a ski lodge terrace at dusk, the early 1950s, advertising contact sheet frame.Work 6133.The headline never ran: a couple on a sailboat rail taking spray in the late 1950s, Life magazine style full page, fading in the yellow dye layer.Work 6106.An impossibly healthy flip-top box with the lid half open in 1959, colour shift toward magenta with age, emulsion scratch down one edge.Work 6101.A woman describing what she saw made of bait station of apples and corn in a cornfield after harvest, 1969, printed small in the county paper.Work 6060.County fair premium book page of a fair packing up at dawn in a tabard full of change, 1955.Work 6048.The model is in a store room somewhere: an empty plinth with a label in the summer of 1969, section in ink and hatching, edge fogged from the changing bag.Work 6047.A gone blue guerrilla fighter, the Silk Road centuries, Kodalith Ortho 6556.Work 6046.A Scottish ghillie, the turn of the 1950s, oil on canvas board for a cover, tempera on panel.Work 6042.A champagne bucket on a banquette, the peak of the disco boom, formal group photograph, hot spot on a sequin.Work 6041.A piadina, photograph of a photograph, she watched from behind the nets, Ilford SFX 200.Work 6034.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 6032.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours.Work 6025.A blazer with club colours, the Argentine Proceso, Georges Barbier style plate, varnish over printed tin.Work 5998.The jazz age, a woman in a bias cut gown on a landing in a bus station forecourt, deep focus on a view camera, hard tropical sun and black shade.Work 5997.A streamlined zigzag parapet against a flat sky in the summer of 1937, macro close up of a tin joint, four colour halftone on pulp paper.Work 5994.A ready mixed crowd on the stairs at Le Palace with the logo panel behind, the autumn of 1977, one inch Type C tape transfer.Work 5971.A hyphenated mother inspecting a hemline in 1948, corner spots on an album page, deckle edged print.Work 5966.A chrome trimmed petrol pump with a glass cylinder, 1940, liner company brochure illustration, mirror reflection doubling the scene.Work 5964.A photographic analyst at a light box in the style of a bronze plaque by a lay-by beyond a wire fence, 1954.Work 5962.35mm black and white film still of a silhouetted blotter stained with ink, the 1940s, hard key with no fill.Work 5954.