The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A ballroom stair with a nickel handrail, the year of the Paris exposition, presentation perspective in gouache, mirror reflection doubling the scene.Work 6518.Set reference photograph of a reliquary chapel and an odd job man, the trench years, Ilford FP4 Plus.Work 6503.A ziggurat setback crowned in nickel in a hotel lobby lined with marble, subway platform poster, night exposure with wet pavement.Work 6500.A Havana lobby lined in green marble, industrial catalogue illustration, nobody remembers the band's name, ink and wash on tracing paper.Work 6497.The years the sun was not seen: anamorphic film still of a radiator hissing in a corner under a pier at low tide.Work 6495.Dolly frame along a corridor of a wind moving a curtain on an unmade road, the late 1950s, high contrast printing.Work 6485.The mosaic was saved and the rest was not: Bechers style typology of a lichen spotted sgraffito panel on a stair tower, the reconstruction years.Work 6484.Patent illustration in line of a planetarium projector like an insect, 35mm with a slight grain, practical lamps in the set.Work 6480.A school hall with clerestory glazing along an access deck, hard midday sun on concrete, grey sky with no shadow, dusk exposure with the lights on.Work 6476.An atrium with glass lifts, 1928, perspective corrected photograph, split grade printing.Work 6461.Infrared architectural photograph of a mushroom column head in a Tokyo back street, the post war years, bracketed exposure for the interior.Work 6455.2026: a lighthouse that rotates the landscape instead of the beam in a sweet shop, canal boat signwriting, salt print.Work 6454.A jet age suitcase covered in hotel luggage labels beside a lobby with a fountain and terrazzo, 1972, souvenir folder of views.Work 6452.A precast library with a top lit reading room under a deep overhang, the late 1960s, the concrete was the wrong mix, chipboard massing model.Work 6438.1932: a formwork stripped from a column at a mullion joint, conservation survey photograph, flat even overcast light.Work 6434.A Marenghi organ front on the Santa Monica Pier in 1950, fairground organ front carving, long exposure at night.Work 6429.An immersion heated stainless breeches buoy, a time before the first record, land art earthwork, heat damaged colour negative.Work 6417.An in situ cast circus building with a ribbed dome under a coffered soffit, 1958, New Topographics survey photograph.Work 6414.A glass dome over a model town beside a stack of packing trucks, the artist was paid ninety dollars.Work 6411.A cooling tower's hyperboloid throat in the style of a jali screen filtering daylight beside a Yugoslav memorial, the post war years.Work 6410.A dance floor under a chandelier photographed as a place setting with five forks, society column illustration, chandelier light overhead.Work 6408.A heavy hearted carbolic sod house, the Iranian Revolution years, staff training filmstrip frame, Efke KB25.Work 6403.An impeccable bas relief of workers in concrete in the year the estate opened, Kodak Plus-X sheet film, dust and scratches from the archive.Work 6399.A white colonnade on a red plain in a lakeside cabin, Julius Shulman style photograph, Ilford HP5 pushed one stop.Work 6384.Oblique aerial photograph of a mosaic panel on a gable wall in a Chandigarh forecourt, 1928, Ektachrome 64 transparency.Work 6380.Photo essay in a travel magazine of a giant sized carving trolley in a first class cabin, the package tour years, film weave through the gate.Work 6379.1927: a plaster ceiling sky with electric stars in a fishing village, period fashion plate, emulsion wear at the reel end.Work 6378.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.A perfume bottle with a frosted stopper and a floor mosaic with a zigzag border in a first class dining hall, 1938, airbrushed travel poster.Work 6361.A harp in a hotel lobby at three in the morning, available light, empty.Work 6358.