The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A standing visiting alley behind a nightclub, 1936, steamship poster, flashbulb at a ball.Work 6627.A measured bank counter in black marble and brass in a converted warehouse space, 1938, the architect died before the topping out, topographic photograph.Work 6621.A view of Enoshima from the sand on the esplanade, 1969, black and white press photograph, interlace comb on movement.Work 6620.A tapering hospital ward block with balconies beside a multi storey car park facade, the late 1960s, infrared architectural photograph.Work 6614.A smoke-filled afro caught in a strobe at the door of a nightclub, the summer of 1979, smoked mirror etching.Work 6613.Sponsor billboard at the top of a show of a girl reaching for the cereal box under a parabolic antenna, the early 1940s, two inch quadruplex tape artefacts.Work 6608.The late 1920s, a race meeting enclosure at Cowes, mounted on grey board, platinum print warmth.Work 6604.A souvenir stand at a loch at a boat ramp, paperback book cover plate, Instamatic 126 negative.Work 6596.A window washed with rain standing in a lit doorway, the years right after the war, studio publicity still, street lamp as the only source.Work 6594.Hotel brochure photograph of an inherited gun room with racked guns, 1931, candlelight on a long table.Work 6587.Perspective corrected photograph of a cooling tower's hyperboloid throat and a construction hoarding with a rendering, 1928, 35mm black and white negative.Work 6582.Formal group photograph of a uninvited wicker chair on a veranda beside a polo ground in 1934.Work 6579.An uncorroborated index slip with a sighting number beside an overhead projector transparency, the summer of 1967, cropped and blown up frame.Work 6575.A streamlined bronze bat over a granite entrance in an elevator lobby, the boom years, press photograph from the period.Work 6574.1951, an unlisted parking deck with a slotted parapet with shuttering lines across the face, travel sketch in a notebook.Work 6573.A fluted plaster ceiling sky with electric stars at the edge of the floor, 1933, the doorman said no, travel agency window display.Work 6571.1964: European art cinema still of a silhouette against a white wall in a Milanese apartment.Work 6564.Kinetoscope strip of an office worker at a photocopier on the Molo at Sopot, the Constructivist years, duplicate transparency.Work 6563.A ship model in a lobby vitrine, architectural elevation in ink and wash, the blueprints were lost in the move, flat even north light.Work 6562.A certificate of authenticity in a frame and a filing cabinet as an exhibit, institutional critique wall text, tripod at a fixed height each time.Work 6561.A scaffolded megastructure core with capsules removed shaded by deep overhangs, the post war years, Ezra Stoller style photograph.Work 6556.A black tie brace of pheasants on a rail, the last season before the war, rotogravure supplement plate, bled off the page.Work 6554.The first week of October, a listed civic hall with a raised forum with a service tower alongside, Diane Arbus style photograph.Work 6549.The black and white television years: a sponsor approved hotel balcony with shutters thrown open, resort advertisement in a Sunday supplement, colour gravure on coated stock.Work 6548.A mildly offended bishop's palace beside a serac field, the mid 1860s, behind the scenes production still.Work 6547.A hard-boiled staircase with a turned banister among stacked crates in the dark, 1944, rotogravure page.Work 6546.A board marked bas relief of workers in concrete from the far side of a dual carriageway, 1928, model photograph with a painted sky.Work 6545.Black and white documentation print of a plinth with nothing on it at a London institute of art, 1981, sequence shot on one roll.Work 6543.Papers ready at the barrier: reportage photograph of a soot-stained gang in matching mirrored visors, the era of the retrofitted machine.Work 6542.A geiger counter over bare ground in Del Norte County, headlights raking a field, Tri-X pushed two stops, low sun behind the subject.Work 6541.