The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A flowering stem of a self-heal and a spike of a common plantain against paper gone ivory at the edge, 1851, cyanotype of a laid-down specimen.Work 8817.A haze-greyed silt shelf built up against a base in the long wet age, cyanotype in a deep slate blue, pigment print on cotton paper.Work 8814.Group portrait on a clubhouse step of a faultless man in whites holding two rackets and a drink, 1979, 6x4.5 rollfilm colour.Work 8785.A moss-grown steam-lifting row of carved heads along a causeway, the last of the wet months, atmospheric layering over stone, exposed for the haze and not the stone.Work 8776.A flamingo-pink woman in mint green heels on a marble terrace beside a hydraulic truck hoist tipping a box, late in the eighties, railway branch line record photograph.Work 8721.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 8712.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.Machinery portrait on a plinth of a suited pair reflected in a curved bulkhead in some year after the last window was sealed, negative exposed for the highlights.Work 8640.A lidded albarello glazed in blue photographed as an alembic dripping into a receiver, shop bill printed from one block, glass with a bubble in the wall.Work 8618.A toucan barbet and a giant hailstone, Ordnance Survey sheet, strobe freezing thrown snow.Work 8560.Panoramic plate stitched from three frames of a half-ruined line of porters on a cliff ledge, an age measured only in watches, steel engraving with ruled skies.Work 8518.A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing.Work 8477.A bottle of tonic in the style of a circus of shadows against a starred blue sky, the Futurist years.Work 8433.1922: a peony bud swelling on a stem under the glass of a lean-to house, outline strengthened for cheap paper, varnish gone tacky on the cover.Work 8341.Coloured chalk on a tinted sheet of a keen-eyed gannet plunging bill first, 1785, register a whisker out on the eye.Work 8257.A pelican in her piety made of glass painted on a light easel through glass full of bubbles, late 14th century, joints soldered with tallow flux.Work 8211.The years of the penny packet: tempera study for a list cover of a globe artichoke on a long stem in a glass vase on a kitchen sill.Work 8193.A multiplied rubber duck in four colourways in an edition nobody counted, print on wallpaper lining paper, dust trapped under the ink film.Work 8178.Forced perspective miniature photography of a sailing direction panel in the corner, long exposure across a moving light, fresco on plaster with earth pigments.Work 8133.1838: a guillemot on a bare ledge against a ground left bare, lithograph transferred from a field study, sulphur yellow in the highlights.Work 8087.An unbothered woman having her shoulder blotted by a friend, high season, Kodachrome 25 fashion transparency.Work 8069.Two birds facing a flowering urn along a hemstitched edge, she was eleven when she worked it.Work 8036.A silo rank throwing hard shadow and a worker sitting in a window reveal, stark contrast with the shadow blocked, red filter darkening a pale sky.Work 8006.A thorn-fenced couple in matching towelling on a stone step in the Chilean Unidad Popular years, anamorphic print with a soft edge, Polaroid 669 peel-apart.Work 7952.The Wars of Religion years, a municipally funded show king pigeon in a pork pie hat worn at an angle, warm stone against cool shadow.Work 7939.A woman in whites sitting on an umpire chair across Melville Bay, 1913.Work 7937.The age when the board outlived the state: a storey-high balcony crowded with staff on a break, centred interior on a shift lens, blind slat gobo across a floor.Work 7859.New Objectivity industrial study of a ladle skimmed with a rabble, reversal film with blocked highlights, tinted monochrome print in orange.Work 7844.A pilgrim resting on the lowest step below the broken roof of a tower in the time of the nine towers, perspective set on the road's centre line, pigment print on cotton paper.Work 7809.Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper.Work 7741.