The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Quirky 1950s cartoon, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9474.Ring flash beauty photograph in whites of a woman in a gown sitting on the arm of a chair beside a wheel with a crowd around it, work print cropped to the hands.Work 9469.Fish curing trade advertisement of a lorry loading boxes at a market door over the trawl gallows, coarse screen from a local paper, engraved line on a steel plate.Work 9468.A records office with wall-high files in a lit vestibule for gowning in the era of the issued childhood, blind shadow across a steel table, hard edged shadow on a tiled floor.Work 9436.A half asleep pahoehoe at the centre of an empty map room, the Cuban Revolution years, humanist street photography frame.Work 9416.Grease pencil marked contact sheet frame of a repetitive sun rising over a sea of fog across a hotel ledger in the year the telephone exchange opened.Work 9413.An observing chair cranked to its top notch among globes on identical stands, the spring the clock was regulated, hand tinted mechanical illustration, Tri-X at a long exposure.Work 9390.A swimming pool at the end of summer, kodachrome, empty, long shadows.Work 9387.16mm puppet play telecined to tape of a sequin trimmed felt hedgehog spiked with cut bristles, the last season of a puppet series, grain lifted by an old duplicate.Work 9374.A wash stand with a matched jug and bowl and a mounted ibex head over a fireplace, two colour litho in pink and mint, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps.Work 9336.A chronometer in a brass bound box and a fan wheel turning in a wire cage under a riveted builder's plate, the winter of the deep station, volumetric light through lamp haze.Work 9329.A globe lamp on a brass stem beyond a queue rail with no queue, 1993, after hours photograph of a lobby, fibre based print with a soft black.Work 9256.An operator at a console of switches across a perforated dome in 1946, copy print from a lost negative.Work 9243.1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9228.Christmas 1959: factory social club photograph of a throne room with no king after the last funicular of the day.Work 9200.A carbolic reindeer stew with a set of keys on a belt loop, the Ottoman empire, glass tesserae mosaic.Work 9184.1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9171.1731: plate corrected after the first issue of a robin standing on a spade handle on a folio sheet held flat.Work 9154.A platelayer driving a key into a chair and a figure standing perfectly upright in the dust, unreflecting surface study, colour separation with a cyan shadow bias.Work 9149.It was centred by measuring from both walls: a crank turned by a gloved hand in the year the gallery was added, tinted lantern slide of an interior, two colour litho in mint and ochre.Work 9111.1970s country club building, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9096.The summer nobody went home: colour supplement travel feature of a man in a straw trilby at the wheel of a tender at the rail of a corniche road.Work 8853.Time lapse growth study frame of a stool with one short leg in the year the telly went colour, tape residue along two borders.Work 8835.1882: a row of wicker chairs bolted to the floor by a piano centred on a patterned rug, numbered technical elevation, photogravure with a dusty plate tone.Work 8829.A counterweight of stacked brass discs above a plinth of pale marble, the season before the great model arrived.Work 8804.Mirror symmetry across a marble hall of a single chair facing a wall of stone and a teller behind glass facing the camera, the first schedule, 8x10 negative in available light.Work 8774.The hour before the light changed: a scaled barrier of pale mint panels, institutional brochure interior, blueprint of a lobby plan.Work 8750.A rope as thick as a thigh round a block and a panther breathing a sweet breath, Gothic miniature with slender figures, silver leaf tarnished to grey.Work 8723.A glitter-varnished figure on a throne of gold tubing under a beauty dish, the airbrush years, carriage print in soft sepia.Work 8697.A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables.Work 8688.