The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A cattle gathered at the far fence and a Futurama model of a highway city at the edge of a logging road, the World of Tomorrow, newsreel frame.Work 6625.A smoke-filled afro caught in a strobe at the door of a nightclub, the summer of 1979, smoked mirror etching.Work 6613.A queue at a whelk stall photographed as a corporation beach sign, Free Cinema style documentary frame, cement splice jumping the gate.Work 6610.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.A rotunda at Nottingham Goose Fair, the year the lido closed.Work 6576.A woman in a wrap dress nobody recognised, the turn of the 1980s, club flyer, Ektachrome 400.Work 6566.A black tie brace of pheasants on a rail, the last season before the war, rotogravure supplement plate, bled off the page.Work 6554.Papers ready at the barrier: reportage photograph of a soot-stained gang in matching mirrored visors, the era of the retrofitted machine.Work 6542.Pulp interior illustration in line of a tailfin on a building parapet in 1935, offset lithography on toy tin.Work 6536.1965, a peasant procession of villagers in the same coat every day, Nouvelle Vague frame.Work 6516.Hand tinted publicity still of a martini with two olives on a pick and a pouch of rough cut tobacco spilling, 1957, Kodak Ektachrome E-3.Work 6505.Presentation rendering with figures of a robot with tread feet under a parabolic antenna, 1941, neon reflected in wet asphalt.Work 6504.The early 1960s, a blustery ghost train front holding a bucket and spade, holiday camp brochure page.Work 6499.The early 1950s, an undocumented Guess Your Weight scale dated the day it was made, closed circuit camera image.Work 6491.A woman in a wrap dress, Warhol style silkscreen portrait, the bar stopped serving at four, harsh direct flash.Work 6475.An undated cropped row of prints across a sandbar, the second century of the smog, snapshot taken in a hurry, raindrops on the front element.Work 6467.The autumn of 1953: a newly bereaved Greek presidential guard marching, zoopraxiscope disc, window light through net curtains.Work 6463.Gouache architectural rendering of a microphone on a chromed stand in the year the liner was launched, sepia toned print.Work 6459.An orange and brown long black, the summer of 1913, 828 Bantam format.Work 6458.A shadowed detective with his hat pushed back out in the rain with no hat, the 1940s, mezzotint.Work 6442.A neon lit face at the door being refused, the mid 1930s, technical section in ink, rotogravure printing.Work 6439.A gentleman in white tie made of marquee on a lawn at Newport in the season, the first season after the war, slight motion in the hands.Work 6432.1936, an underdressed tender coming alongside with the sea behind, Rolleiflex portrait.Work 6424.Weather observer's station photograph of a Douglas fir in the Pinochet years, Lomo LC-A vignette.Work 6420.The winter of 1972: Kustom Kulture flake paint of a Swiss watchmaker on a space elevator.Work 6409.A flip-top box with the lid half open in a hotel cocktail lounge, 1956.Work 6401.An enforcer in a double-breasted suit in a pawnshop window in the mid 1940s, monochrome film still, Cooke Speed Panchro lens.Work 6400.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.Graphite marks on a wall of a site specific slide projector on a stand, 1966, Ilford FP4 on a tripod.Work 6374.