The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A lamppost base thick with paper down an alley lit by one lamp, three shows in one week, marker scrawl over a halftone face, ink run through by a night of rain.Work 8171.Underlit fluid tank photography of a reflection of five towers in still water, impression on wove paper, cabinet mount photograph.Work 8046.A crescent moon with a profile at the crossing of two leads in around 1530, thirteenth century medallion manner, cold paint applied and never fired.Work 8005.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 cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night.Work 7878.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.Group study spaced along one line of a sleigh pulled by moths between two scaffold towers, the Silla years, pulled negative with soft blacks.Work 7574.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.A looming wall running straight for forty miles in after the last team went home, diffraction softening the finest edge, long exposure with the haze smoothed.Work 7457.Floodlit night excavation rendering of a cool-shadowed delegation in a row before a black slab, the first survey season, wide gauge frame scanned at full width.Work 7194.The summer of the long mooring: a beam-lit line of eight stewards facing the lens, dead centre one-point interior exposure, rotogravure in a single brown ink.Work 7181.A diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection.Work 7157.A level chain of surveyor's links laid out beside a naphtha lamp on a long staff, the year of the fourth cavern, monumental void with a tiny camp.Work 7107.A bare bulb strung down a passage over still black water, balloon lettering in ruled capitals, sodium lamp in a wet bore.Work 7014.A number 2 in cream on a mint panel through a haze filled upper terminus, the winter timetable, night platform under one lamp, fibre print with a warm black.Work 7011.Long lens across a city canyon of a heat-hazed cooling stack venting into the night, the quiet years before the divestment, fibre optic lit model photography.Work 7010.Isometric tower schematic of a crowd at the tower foot looking up in the fourth quarter of the long expansion, aircraft lights as short trails.Work 6925.The stall had a new owner by morning: long lens compression down a lane of a wire-tangled steam plume crossing a sign's beam, the market years after the flood laws.Work 6841.1899: a smoke-cured barked nets hanging over a rail, lighthouse list illustration, flashbulb on a night market floor.Work 6817.A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night.Work 6791.A smoke-grey control tower with its windows smashed, the middle of a dark winter, ring flash beauty photograph, flash snapshot printed small.Work 6781.Shallow focus across a crowd of a wet awnings layered ten deep at the mouth of a flooded alley, sodium orange in the mid tones, smoke machine haze on a night set.Work 6755.The first winter after the war, a slick-haired binoculars at a dark window lit only by a hotel sign, large format photograph.Work 6611.The factory made kettles afterwards: concept illustration for a pavilion of a boomerang shaped raygun gothic street corner at night, 1953.Work 6572.A brass railed skyscraper crown lit from below, the year the liner was launched, lacquer on a gessoed panel.Work 6568.16mm archive footage frame of a puddle full of coloured light, 35mm lens in a crowd, bulb flare in the frame.Work 6472.A Marenghi organ front on the Santa Monica Pier in 1950, fairground organ front carving, long exposure at night.Work 6429.A tram passing a shuttered shop on an amusement pier, the last night of the fair, Gevacolor frame, north light in a bare room.Work 6388.A battery operated robot with a lit dome in the style of a giant machine looming over a figure above a plaza on a monorail, the year Sputnik went up.Work 6368.An Ocean City floating ring with rain staining down the piers, 1951, sectional model photograph, neutral density for a long exposure.Work 6367.