The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The atomic age, a robot with a neon grille for a mouth still in the original box, tungsten studio lighting, overexposed sky behind a fin.Work 5799.Faded Eastmancolor print frame of a ticking wall clock in a hallway, Ferraniacolor warm cast, Ilford HPS pushed.Work 5787.A stone brought back from a walk against a bare wall, 1981, Arte Povera installation photograph, daylight through a skylight.Work 5783.The floor was still lit: sheet music cover illustration of a wired glass sprinter in the blocks, the Romantic period.Work 5782.Blind embossed print of a relativistic jet, Agfapan 100, Rolleiflex on a tripod.Work 5777.The year the estate opened: a half demolished bare room with one chair, New Topographics survey photograph, scale figure for reference.Work 5771.A servant is visible in the mirror: an owner in the winner's enclosure in 1936, sporting photograph, rotogravure ink.Work 5767.Sectional model photograph of a town hall with a projecting chamber beside a Yugoslav memorial, 1932, two point perspective from the corner.Work 5766.A glass bricked Mumbai apartment block with a nautical rail beside a chromed radiator, the mid 1930s, Erte style fashion illustration.Work 5758.A future that kept its old machines: a transformer humming on a pole in an office with frosted glass, tungsten-balanced photograph, HMI through a rain bar.Work 5757.An air freshener misting over a sofa in the style of a pedestal camera on a studio floor in a garage with the hood up, the mid 1980s.Work 5752.A telephone exchange with every light on, long exposure, cables.Work 5748.A pipe organ's bellows and levers, tungsten light, set tables.Work 5747.A prawn pink ducking stool on Earth Day, pull down map, perspective control lens, mottled canvas backdrop.Work 5746.A fruit machine, tithe map, derailed, low tracking shot.Work 5745.A joss paper house under warranty during Advent, wooden, prison commissary list, light across a floor.Work 5732.A barber shop with the chairs empty, mirrors, warm light.Work 5726.Oil painting on board of a row of optics behind a bar, rim light through steam, smoke in the beam of a lamp.Work 5710.A puncture repair kit made of Foucault pendulum, soapstone, Ezra Stoller photograph, spring light.Work 5708.A varnished tarmac spreader in an ice cave, Fernand Leger canvas, library reading light, humid haze.Work 5707.A lamp-lit telephone receiver off the hook caught in a headlight, 1944, fogged-up window photograph.Work 5700.A school corridor in the holidays, available light, polished floor.Work 5695.A manila hearse in a Mexican cantina, demolition photograph, lavender shadows, xenon lamp.Work 5679.A moroccan lunar crater made of sugar glass, rococo fete galante, wildfire smoke light.Work 5676.A cinema foyer with a sunburst balustrade in the Mauresque manner, the summer of 1937, architectural elevation in ink and wash, low key studio lighting.Work 5672.A mahogany commandeered herald with a long trumpet, monster truck rally poster, as a child would explain it, sleeper cabin lamp.Work 5668.A three piece suite under plastic covers, Claude-Joseph Vernet storm, retro-futurist, ORWO UN54.Work 5667.A dentist's waiting room made of worm as an apple tenant, cuban, silver gelatin print, light through a flag.Work 5666.The ending was shot first: Techniscope frame of a peasant corridor with doors on both sides, 1965.Work 5662.1955, a mosaic panel on a gable wall under a space frame roof, large format with a shift lens, dust and scratches from the archive.Work 5648.