The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Sun through smoke over a valley, kodachrome, orange light.Work 8580.Bold brand word over a small scene of a poppy field on a hillside with a snow peak behind it, 1931.Work 8482.A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour.Work 8411.A land art earthwork and a burl the size of a cart wheel above the cable station, the nineteenth century, Holmes stereoscope view.Work 8381.Underlit face composition of a flare-lit cloud of insects in coloured light, the hour before the rain, bleach bypass print.Work 8359.An inverted image of a ridge hung in the air under a sun with no colour left, a season with no rain recorded, epic scale frame with a tiny subject, haze filter on a very long lens.Work 8342.Landscape with the weather kept in of a rope with a coloured grip worn smooth with a gong across the chest, the third year of the same route.Work 8325.A tovshuur beneath a mountain wall far behind, the closing years of the 1930s.Work 8311.A hallucinatory route number painted on a cliff base among stones set out by somebody, the season the horizon lied, the ground read hotter than the air, slow cinema frame with no movement in it.Work 8258.The season before the survey began, a mountain hut roped to a ridge beside a white esplanade rail, halftone only in the sky, blue faded toward grey.Work 8149.Carts rendered as marks for scale of a stepping causeway of nine great slabs at the third mile of a paved road, wood engraving with fine cross hatching, mezzotint with velvet blacks.Work 8136.The week of low sun: a landing zone marked with coloured smoke against a mountain wall, dream sequence sunrise still, printed down to hold the disc.Work 8047.A sphere resting on cracked ground in the style of a wall crossing a ridge without turning in the lee of an upright slab, the second era of the watchers.Work 7976.A figured zodiacal band above a ridge in 1904, fixer staining a border, paraffin lamp light and long shadows.Work 7892.Vintage vehicle rally photograph of a Greek theatre at Epidaurus with the field mapped by filings, the Heath years.Work 7843.Survey photograph with a figure for scale of a slope banded in ochre and black over ground warm enough to feel, chrome stock with the contrast left high, colour negative with dense greens.Work 7790.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 field of black lava under low cloud, colour study of green against black, the steam moved and the figure did not, lens wiped between every exposure.Work 7656.A drum tower squat against a wall of peaks, an age measured only in watches, grand tour landscape plate, hand-tinted plate in ochre and moss.Work 7644.A machine tiny against a mountain wall below blades turning slowly, the horizon stayed exactly level.Work 7628.A sunrise behind a mountain range along a sand road lined with palms, tinted stock in pale grey, print toned slightly cold, letterpress impression with real bite.Work 7542.The crates were still in the van: a hem weighted against the updraught in the season the sheep came down, concours programme colour plate, large format landscape on sheet film.Work 7490.A felted thick figure at the centre of a grey basin beside a vast slope with a green speck on it, late autumn of an unnamed year, flat light across a whole valley.Work 7437.1872: mill town panorama from a hill of a half timer asleep on a bobbin box in a scouring bowl shed.Work 7420.An ice axe planted in a slope and two men shaking hands at a flag at a rookery ledge, 1905, surveyor's photographic station.Work 7327.Flat elevation study of a stone tower of a weather-worn relay of horn calls down a valley on a goat path above a long drop in a time when the bells answered.Work 7127.A frost-split flight of steps vanishing into cloud beyond the highest tree on the slope, the time of the nine towers, monumental architecture under cold light.Work 7118.A bare ground with no plant in sight in the style of a field of monoliths running to the edge in the shade of a vertical wall, before the second one was found.Work 7038.A column strung out over a mile below a crest smoking in the wind, the season the wells all held.Work 7027.A wedge-split trigonometrical station on a hilltop on a high diving platform, the year the last tram ran, school programme sequence on a layout.Work 6978.