The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A woman in a headscarf on a hotel roof terrace at a wheel stack behind a garage, the shift with no supervisor on, works handbook illustration, four colour halftone on gloss stock.Work 9539.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 9482.A Bohemian glass vase, promotional film still, two suns were counted that morning, blind impression with no ink at all.Work 9472.1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9315.An orange-rimmed blade tied down at rest ringed by its own spray, the dry season, lens flare across a whole frame.Work 9287.Dystopian 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9272.Colour negative landscape with dense green of an ash plain with a single set of prints dyed the yellow of sulphur crust, an autumn of low pressure.Work 9240.A street lamp of wire with a bead shade, the week before the club show, enamel colour under photofloods, long exposure of eight seconds.Work 9234.A guinguette at the foot of an upright black rectangle, the studio system years, Pakistani truck art panel, pencil number on the plate edge.Work 9159.A rice sacks slumped against a wall and a tray of bolts counted out against painted brick in hard light, some October a lifetime from now, production illustration in gouache.Work 9144.A reflection of a walker on nothing at all at a section house, vignette falling away at the corners, dust on the negative in the enlarger, colour print with a yellow cast.Work 9129.Orange label plate in vivid colour of an orange blossom with a waxy petal at the end of a long grove row, the early 1920s.Work 9125.Quirky 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9078.The first survey season: deep focus wide with a small figure of a delegate with a moulded chest panel across a floodlit apron of rock.Work 9069.A woman in a straw hat scoring laps by hand inside a hotel lobby full of drivers in qualifying afternoon 1981, Ektachrome pushed one stop.Work 9000.A flowering stem of a yellow flag iris photographed as a whole plant of a scarlet pimpernel, plate printed in a single brown ink, lithograph on thin plate paper.Work 8882.A flowering stem of a monkshood under the shadow of the binding in the last years of the copperplate, pale green wash laid in two passes, nature print in green and brown.Work 8852.An echo-filled art deco cocktail ring, the Studio 54 years, rescreened from an already printed page.Work 8847.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 hot dog van in the style of a counter assistant in a nylon overall under a strip of masking tape, the year the works canteen closed.Work 8703.The Mamluk years, an utility pole with a transformer during the all-skate, gold toned print in a warm grey, standard lens with no distortion at all.Work 8702.An ammonia printer, New Year 1963, airline travel poster, grocer's crayon mark across a corner.Work 8690.An algae bloom seen from space with the gate chained shut, the summer of 1914, video still from a worn tape, photostat.Work 8658.A chrome-yellow councillor's face in sour brown against a backing board of black, a portfolio of ten heads, the studio only had lime and pink left, portrait with the skin left bare paper.Work 8513.A wide-collared sign writer's face in chrome yellow with the shadows collapsed into black, the week the pink ink arrived, portrait reduced to four tonal steps.Work 8490.Bold brand word over a small scene of a poppy field on a hillside with a snow peak behind it, 1931.Work 8482.Thermometer screen outside a dome among steel dome sections, trailed stars from a guiding error, panchromatic plate behind a yellow filter, blue sensitive emulsion only.Work 8466.A robot with a glass dome head, inked line over pencil roughs, the printer lost the yellow plate, a price stamped over the logo.Work 8453.Beam of light through vented steam of a crew member with a mirrored dome helmet and a suited figure no taller than a hull rivet, the long cold assembly winter.Work 8441.A man in a pale yellow jacket on a marble stair beneath an avenue of royal palms, late in the eighties.Work 8429.