The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A ladder in a shaft lit at the top photographed as a signal lamp glowing red in the dark, practical lamp in frame, smoke haze on an underground set.Work 8788.Low key portrait under one lamp of a hand on a cradle with its fingers spread, mixed fluorescent and tungsten sources, hard lamp with a controlled falloff.Work 8729.An audience applauding in the dark, stage lighting, silhouettes.Work 8724.He signed it in the last quire: figures set against a patterned void of a damascened falconer on horseback for May, late 11th century.Work 8693.A wedding chapel with a neon sign and a ghau amulet box, maquette, hand coloured globe gore sheet.Work 8660.Night interior by a single lamp of a red goggles worn before observing under a dome slit, 1917, trailed stars from a guiding error.Work 8633.The spine of a library book that was never written, macro, dust, warm lamp.Work 8590.A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night.Work 8588.The water rose a little every year: green-cast fluorescent interior of a sump-side runner sprinting a lit corridor, the age of the improvised circuit.Work 8570.A fan of sidings under a floodlight, cine film frame in 16mm, my father booked on at four, enamelled steel sign panel.Work 8485.A reprint nobody asked for: a neon sign spelling one word on a newsprint page gone tan, romance comic panel art in flat ink, overprint making a muddy orange.Work 8403.Reflection-heavy street composition of a neon-washed rickshaw cyclist standing on the pedals, well after the last clear summer, tungsten film under neon signage.Work 8336.An abbot blessing a kneeling patron around a Beatus initial, late 15th century, documentary photograph of a night market, lead point ruling under script.Work 8314.An armatured stag with brass antlers and foam offcuts in a cardboard box, rear projection plate behind a moving beast, raked light showing every seam.Work 8290.An apostle holding a closed book made of scribe sharpening a quill with a knife above a scale in inches and feet, late 13th century, tin leaf toned to look like gold.Work 8260.An improvised festoon lighting along a wet wall in a winter deep in the coming century, photochemical print with a cyan bias, colour transparency with pastel walls.Work 8210.A sound engineer behind a glass panel, the era of the numbered face, green readout as a colour accent, long lens down a lit corridor.Work 8187.Day-glo lettering over a night sky of a twin-cam wind machine lifting nine capes, a session in 1975, spot gloss varnish on a logo.Work 8181.Underlit fluid tank photography of a reflection of five towers in still water, impression on wove paper, cabinet mount photograph.Work 8046.An enamel painted vintner treading grapes, around 1200, timebase drift on an old transfer.Work 7966.The tail of the crowded decades: two-colour neon key lighting of a gutter running with pink reflected light up a bamboo ladder against a sign.Work 7905.A bar door letting out red light made of porter carrying a crate on his head along an avenue of clipped yews, the middle of the synthetic boom, tungsten film under neon signage.Work 7692.Rim lit silhouette against black of a generator-fed strobe head clamped to a beam, the last night before the demolition, U-matic tape frame with dropout.Work 7661.A gear-quiet gramophone turntable at a console on a maintenance night, 1923, the lamp blew during the eclipse part, night exterior with a lit entrance.Work 7534.A unison-struck patchbay with cables hanging loose in five hundred summers from now, exposure set to hold the shutter marks, long exposure with the figures blurred.Work 7464.A bead-hung bubble canopy filled with orange light beside a stack of fuel drums, the morning after the rain stopped, slow shutter rotor frame.Work 7461.Early Victorian: a wyvern in a corner of the frame within a knotwork border, engraving in the German academic manner, cyanotype copy of a plate.Work 7408.Flash lit auditorium photograph of a glass case over a geared model as the narration began, the late 1930s.Work 7337.A tied crown of seakale in a pot, just after the war, colour proof with the register marks, glass plate contact on gaslight paper.Work 7330.The Three Kingdoms period, a caving beside a magenta warning lamp, contact print of a whole roll, fifty copies dubbed over one weekend.Work 7281.