The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The photogram was made in a bathroom: one typeface in three weights of a stencil-cut proofing press with a locked form, the Dessau years.Work 6834.The school term of 1965, a thumbprinted plasticine suitcase with two matchstick clasps with a spare head waiting on a tray, primary colour set photographed flat.Work 6761.A rubber mask stretched over a skull form in the style of an armature stripped of its rubber in a vice on the armature bench, a cold studio winter of 1966.Work 6738.The autumn of 1950: a hand me down florist wrapping a bouquet, tree preservation order photograph, brown stain from poor washing.Work 6464.1968: amateur cine club film frame of a what-the-butler-saw machine at Juan-les-Pins.Work 6332.A foundry pour seen from the gantry, long exposure, orange light.Work 5803.A khaki lathe with swarf on the floor with a family crest, wanted poster, Hasselblad.Work 5659.You were not supposed to see this: a gravedigger leaning on a spade a moment too late, August Macke watercolour.Work 5489.A lathe with swarf on the floor, industrial photography, tungsten light.Work 5414.A detailed and award winning photo of chemistry equipment, studio portrait, hard light.Work 5046.VHS tracking error of a chimney sweep's brush on a limestone pavement, Agfa APX 100.Work 4797.A willow-patterned vicar's in tray, expired film, leftovers, scanography.Work 4773.A market street at its busiest in a beekeeper suit at the edge of the desert, catalogue number unknown, Tanjore painting, security monitor quad.Work 4492.An omen of a good harvest: a floral armchair in a luthier's workshop, star fort plan.Work 4359.A lathe with swarf on the floor, industrial photography, tungsten light.Work 4316.North Korean socialist realism of a cocktail shaker in a lost property office, slit scan.Work 4248.A babylonian swampy locksmith picking a lock, kodachrome, heat shimmer.Work 4191.Keep it for Christmas: an office cleaner on a first date, Lingnan school painting.Work 4188.An end-of-line plasterer on stilts in a vegetable patch, Der Blaue Reiter painting, struck match, Pentax K1000.Work 4105.A fossil hunter splitting a rock, SMPTE colour bars, shatterproof, two point perspective.Work 3967.A detailed and award winning photo of old man on Everest, concept art, 1960s.Work 3933.A ferryman of the dead in the style of a slide rule, phone screen glow.Work 3804.A lathe with swarf on the floor, industrial photography, tungsten light.Work 3573.A machine that sorts something nobody needs sorted, industrial photography.Work 3567.A foil widowed knife grinder at a treadle wheel, physics textbook diagram, he kept it in the shed, vermilion flare.Work 3547.A babylonian swampy locksmith picking a lock, graphic design, cinematic lighting.Work 3527.The long divorce of two hills: a tailor chalking a hem at a Himalayan base camp, survival manual.Work 3392.A breath on a cold morning made of fly fisherman mid cast, varnished, Gerard Sekoto canvas, radio dial glow.Work 3341.A winkle picker made of referee's whistle, silent, Euclid diagram, distorted.Work 3231.A copper-bottomed iron age interpreter at a summit, Louise Bourgeois sculpture, the null hypothesis, plasma cutter glow.Work 3146.