The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Bestiary plate with a written gloss of a lead-ruled fox preaching to a congregation of geese, around 1320, sewn quires on alum tawed thongs.Work 6822.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 suit hung on a wooden frame, the third watch of the old order, overcast light with one break of sun, ambrotype with a deep green ground.Work 6814.A rail-tracked survey party standing in a straight line in 1862, no visible source and a full exposure, gelatin dry plate on a weighted stand.Work 6810.The third summer of the survey: a wind-shaped far ridge reduced to a grey suggestion, symmetrical composition on a flat horizon, mechanical tint laid over a flat.Work 6808.A movie poster for a courtroom drama, high contrast, hard shadows.Work 6807.A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block.Work 6804.A hushed perforated aluminium dome panel beneath a swinging pendulum, the quiet decade, audience reaction photograph.Work 6803.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.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 6763.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.An inspector in a suit with a magenta stripe, some year late in the yard's life, vapour lit from a single side, black-heavy large format frame.Work 6754.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 harness-clipped Soviet sanatorium, the giant holiday number, through-the-crowd composition, glare-flattened exterior plate.Work 6737.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 steam engine at a rally around an armillary sphere, 65mm negative printed wide, pushed two stops in Rodinal, one hard source and one black flag.Work 6723.An overpasted shalwar as the demonstrator arranged it, a winter far down the next century, forest service inspection photograph.Work 6720.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.Mid 13th century, a tooled stag caught in a briar with a scroll in one hand, Parisian atelier work of small scale.Work 6716.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.She won the fare home and stayed anyway: wide shot of a crowded pit of a mirror-doubled man in a tuxedo with one hand on the rail, after midnight.Work 6690.A Russian matryoshka painter with the far end of the street half height, the late Victorian years, military installation record photograph, pulp board warped at a corner.Work 6687.The February holidays: hotel publicity photograph of a men in evening dress on a moonlit piste on the top terrace at noon.Work 6681.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.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.Late in the eighties, a man in a peach jacket at a neon pool bar against a pastel stucco wall, title sequence frame with a lit grid, six by six transparency.Work 6660.An airport departures board with impossible destinations, long exposure.Work 6656.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.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.The front room before the move: Hyalotype lantern slide of a lace edged tombstone carver, harvest time 1968.Work 6632.