The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A footprints on a wet sidewalk made of sedan with running boards in a lobby with a potted palm, the mid 1940s, barn doors cutting the spill.Work 6539.An elephant in a hotel lobby, wide angle, marble, chandeliers.Work 6537.A marquee on a lawn made of full length portrait in a gilt frame on a driveway with the wagon parked, the late 1920s, snow from a weak aerial signal.Work 6531.A pressed metal ceiling in a bank hall and a perfume counter under frosted globes, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, grain from a fast plate.Work 6523.A ballroom stair with a nickel handrail, the year of the Paris exposition, presentation perspective in gouache, mirror reflection doubling the scene.Work 6518.A ziggurat setback crowned in nickel in a hotel lobby lined with marble, subway platform poster, night exposure with wet pavement.Work 6500.A Havana lobby lined in green marble, industrial catalogue illustration, nobody remembers the band's name, ink and wash on tracing paper.Work 6497.Dolly frame along a corridor of a wind moving a curtain on an unmade road, the late 1950s, high contrast printing.Work 6485.A season after the convoys stopped: polarised landscape photograph of a radio mast guyed with cable in a cloud of its own dust.Work 6482.A school hall with clerestory glazing along an access deck, hard midday sun on concrete, grey sky with no shadow, dusk exposure with the lights on.Work 6476.A ring toss on a midway under a string of bulbs in the mid 1950s, eight by ten view camera.Work 6474.A tunnel boring machine in an igloo, Polaroid emulsion lift, shallow depth of field at f2, an X-ray fogged roll from an airport.Work 6462.An atrium with glass lifts, 1928, perspective corrected photograph, split grade printing.Work 6461.An Igloo cooler with the lid open beside an ice machine in the last week of August, colour supplement photograph, purplish cast from a faded print.Work 6460.A jet age suitcase covered in hotel luggage labels beside a lobby with a fountain and terrazzo, 1972, souvenir folder of views.Work 6452.A mechanical bank on a desert proving ground in the Great Society years, Ektachrome 200.Work 6451.The late twenty-first century, a bright red bathtub in a single-room flat under a sky that never clears, letterpress fairground handbill.Work 6450.A loudspeaker mounted high on a wall in a Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, stencilled wall text, flat even gallery lighting.Work 6446.A suntanned high rise hotel above a bay in the middle of a dry lake bed, the decade after the grid failed, the next tank is three days out, Ektachrome transparency.Work 6426.The autumn of 1973, a teletype terminal in a morgue corridor, Kodacolor Gold 200, barn doors on a hot light.Work 6422.An immersion heated stainless breeches buoy, a time before the first record, land art earthwork, heat damaged colour negative.Work 6417.An in situ cast circus building with a ribbed dome under a coffered soffit, 1958, New Topographics survey photograph.Work 6414.A speakeasy door with a sliding panel in an architect's office in 1940, grain heavy in the shadows.Work 6397.An autumn thirty years from now: a chrome-trimmed records office of paper stacks, gouache concept rendering, venetian blind gobo across a wall.Work 6396.A dolls house with one room lit, available light, wide angle.Work 6394.Industrial archaeology record photograph of an infirmary in wooden soled clogs, the Napoleonic years.Work 6393.The last summer of the refineries, a chopped alley with a single fire escape waiting at the end of the bar, high-contrast copy print.Work 6381.1927: 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.