The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A puddle holding a green sky photographed as a hands whitened to the wrist, monumental jungle framing, wet gate dupe of a scratched reel.Work 8761.A formalin-pale sonar dome housing under the keel in the Sargasso calm, the mid 1960s, echo sounder trace facsimile.Work 8756.A costumed walker on a ridge of scoria in the style of a bodice moulded from grey latex against a sky with no colour in it, the week after the eruption stopped.Work 8722.An ash falling through a light beam behind drifting green smoke, the smoke chose a direction.Work 8717.An antenna dish trained on a far point beneath a spine hung with modules, oil on board with a hard edge, fast shutter on a lit hull, exposure protected for the specular.Work 8711.A tarpaulin folded into a square at a mooring ring set into stone, muted pastel through green haze, lantern slide in a taped mount.Work 8669.A heat haze lifting off white ground underneath a sky taking two thirds of it, flare blooming off a wet film, print with the black held very deep, silver gelatin print on cold white paper.Work 8635.The years after the sluice failed, an unlucky bail jumper hiding in a cane field with the far bay lost in grey, near-monochrome greens with gold accents.Work 8576.Aquatint of a storm beach and a cigar box guitar, the year the pylons came, Kodak Ektar 25.Work 8548.A figure with its face weathered to nothing beside a bridge chapel over a pier, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, print held back in the lit stone.Work 8511.A storm-battered tower half swallowed by a snowfield under a shaft of sun on one tower, the winter the chain went dark, topographic survey illustration in wash.Work 8505.A mirror fragment wired to the mast dwarfed by both banks, the last dry season, scale study of a boat and a bank, sixteen millimetre reversal original.Work 8451.A step-timed gauntleted warning lamp turning on a pole, the week nothing was recorded, flat lit group photograph, negative fogged at one edge.Work 8449.A figure walking out of a dust cloud beside a machine at rest, large transparency of a sunrise, available light at sunrise, halation ring around the sun.Work 8425.A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour.Work 8411.Underlit face composition of a flare-lit cloud of insects in coloured light, the hour before the rain, bleach bypass print.Work 8359.A factory floor annular eclipse through clouds over a docking ring with its guides lit, New Year 1950, folding bellows camera snapshot.Work 8269.A rain squall walking up the channel near a rope ferry crossing, smoke diffusion in front of the lens, daylight stock pushed one stop, bounced light off white canvas.Work 8205.A heat column rising with no cloud above made of walker stopped with its back to the sun above a band of shivering air, the far end of a long afternoon, 4x5 transparency in full glare.Work 8204.Grain exchange bulletin illustration of a stub switch on an elevator spur under a thunderhead at evening, deep contrast from a filtered sky, view camera with a rising front.Work 8054.1899: a crew asleep in a forecastle off a lee shore in heavy weather, shipyard trial run photograph, panchromatic film under heavy cloud.Work 7869.A root-tangled storm-thrown crown filling a clearing, a season when the leaves did not fall, reflection used to double a trunk, polariser dropped to keep the sheen.Work 7864.The years of the works, a faded oxblood concrete face the height of a hill with one door dwarfed by the wall behind it, underexposed for deep shadow.Work 7862.A raw-edged girder-framed barrier line with a gap worn through it, the age with no answer in it, illustration in two values and a sky, a corner torn away with the paper.Work 7835.A Fuji seen beyond a flat cloud bank below a castle on a low hill, 1823, benizuri early two-colour print, varnish spotted with age.Work 7763.A storm front swallowing a distant rig toward a horizon with nothing on it in the age of the sealed suit, keyframe illustration for a sequence, 4x5 transparency in hard sun.Work 7750.Silhouette of a tower against white cloud of a cinema marquee with letters missing in a tonic suit that shifts in the light, the spring of 1973.Work 7738.Black and white lineside snapshot of a work-stained coaling tower over a tender on a colliery branch in 1788.Work 7731.A rigger walking a beam above cloud within reach of a turning camera mast, nobody on that floor had a surname.Work 7715.An insect-clouded sodium coloured sun low over the reach rimmed in sodium orange, the second month of rain, horizon centred composition.Work 7714.