The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A personally plated woman in gold heels on a polished forecourt under a sodium street lamp, January 1986, overhead frame from a parking deck.Work 6820.A chief surveyor in a dusty pink coat in the style of a chart table flanked by two lamps against a panelled wall of dusty pink, the summer of the great triangulation.Work 6818.A hushed perforated aluminium dome panel beneath a swinging pendulum, the quiet decade, audience reaction photograph.Work 6803.Registration off by half a frame of an exposure meter held against a clay face by a stream of blue cellophane, the first colour series of 1969, splice bump every few feet.Work 6802.A flare-haloed traveller with light streaming from behind the head rimmed in the opposite colour, a century into the passage, complementary clash of magenta and cyan.Work 6795.Portrait with the horizon removed of a figure in a hat the width of a table, grain visible only in the flat ground, print toned slightly toward olive.Work 6787.The year of the four colourways, a two-toned astronaut's head in flat silver grey with the hair printed as one flat mass, two-ink portrait with a black key.Work 6762.A hat box stacked on a leather case photographed as a service bell push beside a bed, staff portrait on a grand staircase, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls.Work 6759.A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924.Work 6741.Photo story with invented captions of a woman in oversized pearls at the pool steps mid-laugh with the head thrown back, August on the coast.Work 6740.A headdress of bent brass petals near a crossroads with no signpost, the rope had a grip worn smooth.Work 6735.The season the funicular opened: a brass-buttoned two bellhops standing at matched attention, funicular timetable illustration, 16mm frame with soft edges.Work 6733.A traced fired pinnacled canopy over a standing figure, around 1380, flat pattern with no cast shadow, window wired to an external guard.Work 6718.Four-colour newsprint comic panel of a forkful of spaghetti in red dots with a pink hotel sign overhead, the year the marina filled up.Work 6708.A simplified bevel gears at right angles, 1919, spearfishing magazine cover, linen tracing with the ink still glossy.Work 6698.A wind-burnt ski school line in matching red bibs in New Year 1982, airbrushed gouache on board, flash fill against hard sun.Work 6693.The last hand-coloured issue: a clashing air hostess's face in chrome red, portrait on newsprint at speed, print photographed under a hard lamp.Work 6692.The print studio's busiest summer: an overprinted judge's head in flat crimson, commercial portrait flattened to stencils, silkscreen ink proud of the surface.Work 6678.Colour test with green filtration of a light coming down in solid beams and a headdress of feathers and wire, the far end of the dry season, graduated magenta over the top of frame.Work 6676.Two-up layout copied and guillotined of a cover with the title cut into a photograph, photostat mounted on thin cardboard, biro on lined paper then copied.Work 6675.A symmetrical two clerks slapping palms over a terminal beside a crewel wool wound on a bone winder, 1738, line illustration with hatched shadow.Work 6661.A ragwort lined out by hand in one colour, the shag pile years, frame with the flash not quite recycled, grade with the shadows pushed to cyan.Work 6653.Apple label plate with a red bloom of a laurel wreath round a brand word in the middle 1930s, sun fade down one side.Work 6644.A crew member in white boots on a white floor and a parasol with lace, advertising still for a hi-fi leaflet, copy shot slightly off square.Work 6636.A smoke-filled afro caught in a strobe at the door of a nightclub, the summer of 1979, smoked mirror etching.Work 6613.An eyebrow shade over a Collins Avenue window, 1925, Art Deco poster in flat colour, soft focus portrait lens.Work 6607.Visas arranged by the agency: timetable cover illustration of a straw hatted lacquered tray of tea things, 1960.Work 6605.A movie poster for a heist that goes wrong, 1970s, grain, split composition.Work 6584.New German Cinema frame of a figure walking into the sea waiting for a telephone call, the mid 1960s.Work 6578.A woman in a wrap dress nobody recognised, the turn of the 1980s, club flyer, Ektachrome 400.Work 6566.