The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Keres above a flooded stone tank in the age of the pager, photogravure on plate paper.Work 10157.Vertical format for a standing colossus of a weather-blunted tower at each end of a bridge, the years the quarry worked, gouache on grey-toned stock.Work 10149.A movie poster for a spy film set in one hotel, 1963, geometric.Work 10146.A bagel with a cloud of cream cheese after the wind dropped to nothing, signal station photograph, cold-toned print in a blue grey.Work 10141.The year the liner was launched: a Napier shopfront rebuilt after the shake beside a porthole window, press photograph from the period, shallow depth on a portrait lens.Work 10137.A tagged woodcock crouched in dead leaves beside a numbered figure key, the great subscription years, the label is in two hands, hand-coloured lithograph from a folio stone.Work 10127.A salt-white kettle boiling brine to nothing black against everything around it, the century of the block sled, silhouette treatment against white glare.Work 10124.A switchboard of marble and brass and a clock with a second dial for depth near a switchboard of marble and brass, 1887, engraved plate reprinted in colour.Work 10122.A saw kerf full of sawdust, the last season of steam yarding, mill town newspaper photograph, monochrome with no sky detail.Work 10118.A teasel full of seeds and snow across a folded paper insert in the age of the zeppelin, collotype on thin coated paper.Work 10116.A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924.Work 10112.A girder lattice rising into gas cell shadow made of automatic gas valve in a wire cage behind two hundred men on one rope, the second ascent, heliogravure with a fine grain.Work 10109.Monochrome film still of a telephone receiver off the hook, street lamp as the only source, long shadow into the foreground.Work 10104.He grew it for the show and nothing else: line block with flat colour behind of a penny dahlia bloom the size of a plate, 1918.Work 10101.A path curving out of sight in gold under a canopy held up like a ceiling, bellows racked out for a near root, mural study in charcoal at full size, reversal slide stock pushed half a stop.Work 10090.1970s strange cartoons, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 10086.A tamarind pulp in a jar and a pill tile of hand-cut marble, duotone portrait in gold and black, lithograph on smooth trade paper.Work 10084.A cosplayer in a homemade robot suit over a bed of pig iron moulds, Easter 1962, unaccessioned archive photograph, page with a pupil's pencil notes.Work 10081.A unit cell of common salt, spread with one bright figure on black, the plates were cut with a jeweller's saw, cloth backed sheet folded into eight.Work 10070.1997: a sunstruck last frame of a roll, hotel brochure photograph with cars, monochrome print at postcard size.Work 10062.An air hostess pointing to an exit with the sound word lettered across it, the hundredth issue, dotted illustration with no grey in it, two flats meeting with a white gap.Work 10060.A tweeded plaza the size of a parade ground, the age of the great excavations, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod.Work 10056.A solitary pumice bank pale against dark rock, no year the map admits to, frontal view of a slope and a walker, slow film at a small aperture.Work 10055.The summer of 1976: a crowded beach at high tide outside a bathing cabin, black and white press photograph, orange fade of an old print.Work 10054.Frame from a hotel promotional film of a quay with numbered warehouses beneath a scale of fathoms, print laid down on linen with cloth hinges, sheet with an old library label at a corner.Work 10053.A railway poster in one typeface in the style of a pictogram set of six figures in a stand of white partitions, 1928.Work 10052.A mast guyed with four matched wires in the style of an opening big enough for a locomotive in a gatehouse the size of a hut, the years of the works.Work 10049.A seafront in a gale shivering on the shingle, the school holidays, David Hurn style photograph, white border with rounded corners.Work 10046.A setting-out lines scribed on a paving slab at the third mile of a paved road, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, grain visible along the parapet edge.Work 10041.An over the moon waveguide in the summer of 1948, uneven pull leaving a pale band, pushed to EI 3200.Work 10036.