The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A speakeasy door with a sliding panel in an architect's office in 1940, grain heavy in the shadows.Work 6397.A white colonnade on a red plain in a lakeside cabin, Julius Shulman style photograph, Ilford HP5 pushed one stop.Work 6384.1927: a plaster ceiling sky with electric stars in a fishing village, period fashion plate, emulsion wear at the reel end.Work 6378.Graphite marks on a wall of a site specific slide projector on a stand, 1966, Ilford FP4 on a tripod.Work 6374.A dentist's waiting room, fluorescent light, wide angle, magazines.Work 6370.A finned rocket on a launch gantry wired to a control panel, the early 1940s, municipal record photograph, Panatomic-X fine grain.Work 6353.Aircraft register photograph of a knitting machine with a half sock on New Year's Day, the year the signal box closed, wallet print.Work 6343.1941: a camera pointed at an empty room over a model highway city, model shot with wires, taped to the wall with masking tape.Work 6339.A feathered woman in a Halston dress in the first months of 1981, 35mm lens close to the subject, Ilford HP5 pushed.Work 6336.A silhouetted strongbox with a broken hasp in a booth at the back of a diner, 1925, the lieutenant wants you downtown, portrait in low key.Work 6335.1935, a friction powered rolled towel on a chair back with a meter on its chest, Ed Ruscha style photograph.Work 6329.An eel catcher in a petrified forest, argyrotype, Kentmere 400.Work 6325.Warhol style silkscreen portrait of a reinstalled Bozak mixer under a lamp on a strip of land beside a highway in the tail end of the 1970s.Work 6319.A radio set with a lit dial beneath a lit billboard, the decade of the off-world lotteries, practical effects still, atmospheric haze lit from behind.Work 6317.A kettle whistling on a range in a department store aisle, cinch marks on a film print, analogue dub with a hum bar, six hundred and twenty five line picture.Work 6315.The year the works opened: a newspaper kiosk at the Paradise Garage, light struck negative, Eastman Double-X 5222.Work 6307.An anodised white colonnade on a red plain inside a glazed atrium, 1928, photograph of an architectural model.Work 6304.Open all night: tonal value study of a nervy squad car at the kerb, 1956.Work 6303.1965: a ring binder of typed pages in a seminar room, site photograph with a scale figure, Kodak Plus-X print.Work 6296.A diesel-smoked front car of the Scenic Railway at Dreamland in 1957, heavy grain in the shadows, deep contrast.Work 6295.A louvred wedding palace with a folded facade on pilotis, 1951, pencil study on trace.Work 6291.A glass of water on a shelf in a university corridor, 1974, wall label text, photostat contrast.Work 6289.Lacquer panel painting of a lacquered cabinet with shagreen panels in a terrazzo entrance hall, 1933, gouache on grey board.Work 6285.A rank of striped cabins at Rimini, the late 1920s, architectural photograph of a facade, flash falloff into a dark room.Work 6284.1953, a photostatted service station with a folded plate roof repeated eleven times, department store catalogue plate.Work 6281.An aproned dog at the edge of the water beside a pool ladder, the last week of August, piece to camera by a spokesman.Work 6278.A cinema with three people in it on a shuttered terrace, the spring of 1968.Work 6276.Everybody lies about the money: a railway signal in the rain in 1944, cinematic frame with deep focus, shot on Eastman Super-XX.Work 6270.A troll market on a rooftop of antennas in the Taisho democracy years, a microfilm reader screen.Work 6264.An anchor dropped into the sky at Whitley Bay, dodged and burned print, Kodak Instant PR10, flash falloff into black.Work 6257.