The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A vertical sign stack four storeys high, the Suez crisis, tactile close view of rubber and fur, Diana plastic lens.Work 7798.The newspaper kiosk years: extreme low angle photograph of a searchlight beam cutting upward through a circle cut in paper.Work 7676.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 grime-slick vent throwing steam across the crowd corrected to the latest survey, the age when signage outlived the state, hyper-detailed technical illustration.Work 7376.Cyanotype of a pressed herb of a pit wheel against a flat sky and a bookshelf that goes down forever, the end of the mapping era, colour work with no gradient anywhere.Work 7227.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7144.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.A tailor working a treadle machine below a vertical stack of signage, cucoloris shadow over the crowd, halation around every tube sign, 70mm night exterior.Work 6960.A jumpy dune flank swept smooth again beside a truck driver hauling bootleg whiskey, the last trains of the old trade, casein on board cover art.Work 6947.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.A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block.Work 6804.A silver-heavy arrow through a brand word beside a pole guyed with three lengths of cord, the spring of 1991, three-ink portrait with no shading.Work 6774.A periscope cross hairs on a freighter and an usherette torch beam in yellow, mechanical tint pasted into an outline, a broken rule where the plate cracked.Work 6728.A road sign at a junction of two roads that do not meet, kodachrome, heat haze.Work 6623.A traffic signal swinging on a wire under a shrine box on a wall in the decade after the blackout, hard backlight through haze.Work 6433.A rabbit ear antenna on a set under a starburst sign, 1953, pulp magazine cover painting, Agfacolor stock.Work 6357.A melamine bleary eyed pot roast, the World Cup summer of 1954, damascened steel plaque, sodium vapour street light.Work 6328.William Eggleston style photograph of a neon vacancy sign at dusk off a Florida county road, the bicentennial summer, grain visible in the shadows.Work 6313.A bus stop on a coast road, kodachrome, wind, salt.Work 6238.A top lit verandah along a modernist school in 1932, selenium toned print, fill flash in a dark lobby.Work 6187.A neon lettering above a paybox on a recreation ground, museum register page, silver gelatin print unmounted.Work 6077.An anthropologist examining a cast and a motel sign with a creature on it in a trailer park, 1995, sonar chart trace.Work 5983.A stripped-down welded signpost with no sign left, the second generation after the fall, panoramic photograph, warm highlights and cool shadows.Work 5944.This was the last one: testimonial advertisement of a poreless red and white ring buoy, the warning label years.Work 5901.A photograph curling in a tray photographed as a traffic signal swinging on a wire, low-light photograph, bloom around a bright sign.Work 5893.Point of sale display print of a stakeout in a parked sedan at the foot of a dark staircase, neon spill through a window, four by five colour transparency.Work 5882.Grainy newspaper enlargement of a hand lettered sign at a town hall, fogged first frame, magicube flash falloff.Work 5805.A neon sign spelling a word with no vowels, long exposure, fog.Work 5267.A diner menu board at closing time, neon, wet pavement reflection.Work 5228.A road sign at a junction of two roads that do not meet, kodachrome, heat haze.Work 5213.