The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The VHS years: a bleach smelling sugar refinery, culvert inspection photograph, magnesium flash powder.Work 6333.1935, a friction powered rolled towel on a chair back with a meter on its chest, Ed Ruscha style photograph.Work 6329.A woman smoking alone on an island in the Baltic in the spring of 1968, anamorphic flare across the frame.Work 6312.Bruce Davidson style photograph of an underlit amusement pier at night, the first week of October, blurred ride in a slow exposure.Work 6311.A pier theatre frontage, holiday brochure photograph, the film is the wrong way round, Kodachrome 40 Type A.Work 6309.A suntanned gondola under a stone bridge at the edge of a turquoise lagoon, the early 1970s, the pool was built the year after, travel trade advertisement.Work 6287.Filipino jeepney art panel of a self important slider phone in a flooded basement in 2029.Work 6272.A blue pool vacuum hose on a night express, 1927, holiday album photograph, rotogravure printing.Work 6269.A planter's punch on a rattan table at the rail of a ferry, travel film frame in sixteen millimetre, haze over a bay in the afternoon.Work 6267.Yacht club regatta photograph of a long white glove past the elbow in a red coat, 1926.Work 6266.An anchor dropped into the sky at Whitley Bay, dodged and burned print, Kodak Instant PR10, flash falloff into black.Work 6257.A wax block melting slowly in a Venice Biennale pavilion, the edition ran to five hundred.Work 6243.Oblique aerial photograph of a bush hammered concrete pier, tungsten balanced interior, bounced light off a white soffit.Work 6240.A placemat against a seafront railing, submersible floodlight photograph, light struck frame.Work 6233.An ocean liner smoking room on a Miami Beach porch, symmetrical elevation on axis, three colour process printing, tempera on panel.Work 6232.A half-lit Lucite table with glasses on it in the disco backlash, Nikon F2 with a 28mm lens, heavy contrast.Work 6227.Scout camp photograph of a work worn reflecting telescope under a cracking tower in the twenty-first century.Work 6222.A seated man laughing alone, the spring of 1968, static wide frame, Academy ratio with soft corners.Work 6215.A whitewashed hotel on a cliff on a quay with fishing boats, publicity photograph for an airline, Hasselblad 500C on a beach.Work 6212.An old fashioned glass sweating on a coaster on a hotel terrace above a harbour, the filter tip years.Work 6196.A pier in low cloud behind a windbreak, 1972, 8mm home movie still, glare off wet sand.Work 6184.A river steamer with a sun deck and a price panel at the back of a brochure, lithographed travel poster, oversaturated brochure colour.Work 6169.Video monitor image of a spiral of rock in a shallow lake, Polaroid taken as a record, Ilford FP4 on a tripod.Work 6162.A long suffering wood sorrel in the Asuka period, Ektachrome 160 Tungsten, Ilfochrome Classic.Work 6148.Freeze frame from a broadcast of a centre pivot irrigator crossing a field on a river bank in July, the year the service station opened, yellowed print from poor washing.Work 6141.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.My mother took this: a high-rise hotel behind the beach in the wakes weeks, David Hurn style photograph, light leak at the cartridge change.Work 6087.A researcher at an index cabinet in a swamp at first light, tripod steady and dull, polaroid chemical streak, fog rolling off water.Work 6081.A sky full of starlings over a pier, black and white, motion blur.Work 6080.1970, a rowing boat pulled up on shingle between two breakwaters, Kodacolor-X print, whip pan across the beach.Work 6067.