The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A rental counter stacked with brown boots and a painted rainbow across the rink wall, painted sign above a snack bar, shot from the booth window.Work 8358.A pencil ruled strawberry dipped halfway in chocolate in the Indira years, letterpress halftone on pulp paper, whole plate glass negative.Work 8086.An English muffin in the style of an aubergine between the sun and a treeline, the moulded plywood years.Work 8065.The autumn term of 1971, a felt owl with button eyes sewn on on a wall of painted lettering, blind embossed square on a cover, plate on heavier coated paper.Work 7977.Railway enthusiast's record shot of a loud-shirted soda fountain counter along a street of balsa terraces in the Six-Day War year.Work 7893.A cheaply repeated soup tin repeated in six clashing colourways beside a rocket tiled in green and pink, the second pull, repeat print with every cell recoloured.Work 7660.A sign-lit eel tank lit from below beside a courier machine with a cracked cheek panel, the decade the river stopped falling, documentary night market reportage.Work 7604.A gull-haunted ice cream churned by hand in the Perón years, digital plate finished at 8K, oil on millboard rubbed thin.Work 7581.A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables.Work 7428.Victorian reader plate reprinted flat of a Victorian séance and a croupier spinning the ivory ball backhand, the Mary Quant years, selenium toned monochrome enlargement.Work 7262.A tempura, high angle over an empty plain, the salt kept the shape of the blade, grain visible in the dome shadow.Work 7050.Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15.Work 6981.Lubricant poster illustration of a woman in a silk dress on a picnic rug below tipping slag on a hillside, heliogravure plate in a folio, dye transfer print from three negatives.Work 6967.Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15.Work 6965.2024, a crocodile with piano key teeth beside a bundle tied for market, salt print with soft edges, mezzotint on thick plate paper.Work 6903.A cereal packet from a country that never existed, product photography, 1968.Work 6897.Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15.Work 6885.A punch bowl with a floating orange at a lecturer's rail in the Azuchi-Momoyama period, 16mm insert of a model town, grainy enlargement from a small frame.Work 6863.A vented burger dripping cheese over a channel running to a trough, Easter 1960, fax transmission of a photograph.Work 6842.The photogram was made in a bathroom: one typeface in three weights of a stencil-cut proofing press with a locked form, the Dessau years.Work 6834.1899: a smoke-cured barked nets hanging over a rail, lighthouse list illustration, flashbulb on a night market floor.Work 6817.A crust flaking under a slow footfall in the margin beside its own paragraph, the plate was numbered out of order.Work 6689.A petrol pump in four colourways and a subtropical glasshouse, over the shoulder of an examiner, letterpress plate with a caption block.Work 6641.A concrete rib tunnel with a wet floor and a padlock cut and left hanging in a rack at a market stall, 1909, vanishing point down a lit bore.Work 6640.A queue at a whelk stall photographed as a corporation beach sign, Free Cinema style documentary frame, cement splice jumping the gate.Work 6610.The camera ran out: an ice cream van on the promenade in 1985, Soviet sanatorium poster, back-lit by the sea.Work 6602.A spinning weather-beaten chip van with the hatch open, 1975, carnival ride catalogue page, hand-held at a quarter second.Work 6590.Hand tinted publicity still of a martini with two olives on a pick and a pouch of rough cut tobacco spilling, 1957, Kodak Ektachrome E-3.Work 6505.A candidate on a campaign bus on a safari lodge veranda, New Year 1955.Work 6445.Fourteen nights half board: poster for a national airline of a palm fringed lacquered tray of tea things, 1978.Work 6437.