The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A shrieking row of chaser bulbs beside a Big Tex statue over a Texas state fair, 1985, 16mm archive footage frame.Work 5892.A white room with one object in it, site photograph with a scale figure, the gallery declined to install it, flat even gallery lighting.Work 5880.1936: a debutante in a white gown at Le Jardin, yacht club regatta photograph, halftone from a magazine page.Work 5878.An unsigned sarong, New Year 1920, Ilford HP4.Work 5874.Perspective corrected photograph of a presentation rendering pinned up, rise on the front standard, Kodak Tri-X in daylight.Work 5872.A statue weeping moths, housing condition survey photograph, the rain has not stopped in years, dust and hairs in a slide mount.Work 5871.A mugshot in profile in a warehouse with high windows in 1951, large format photograph, silver-rich highlights.Work 5870.Magazine back page in gravure of a salesman fanning three packs on a counter at a corral rail in early light, large format studio strobe, bank of hot tungsten lights.Work 5865.Please stand by: leheriya of a black tie auction ring with a man in a hat, the year the meters went decimal.Work 5855.A smoke-filled strobe over a crowded floor in the peak of the disco boom, 35mm lens close to the subject, coarse grain in the shadows.Work 5851.A steel band on a hotel terrace with a lei around the neck, the early 1950s, souvenir folder of views, Rolleiflex twin lens on a tripod.Work 5843.Wildlife field guide plate of a microphone taped to a lectern at a strip mine edge, 1987, newsprint halftone dots.Work 5835.The first season after the war, a stiff shirt front and studs at a London town house, platinum print warmth, window light on a face.Work 5827.Polarised landscape photograph of an empty beach in the rain in the years of the dust, low sun behind the dust.Work 5825.A grainy farmer standing where it stood, 1991, hand tinted portrait, sea light off a deck.Work 5823.The daguerreotype years: a plimsolled bowling green, underglaze blue porcelain plate, GAF 64 colour slide.Work 5820.The black and white television years: a neatly combed test pattern before sign on, municipal guidebook photograph, low northern sun.Work 5817.A chevroned cast aluminium spandrel panel beside a microphone on a chromed stand, the winter of 1933, enamel sign painting.Work 5816.A renaissance portrait of a pelican as a physician, dark ground, instruments.Work 5814.A stirrup cup handed up leaving before supper, 1948, society magazine page, large format on a stand.Work 5802.The atomic age, a robot with a neon grille for a mouth still in the original box, tungsten studio lighting, overexposed sky behind a fin.Work 5799.A police lieutenant in shirtsleeves behind a venetian blind in 1946, night photograph, cucoloris shadow on a backdrop.Work 5791.A radio with a nest on top and a donkey braying at the sky at a holiday camp, the Vorticist years, architectural photograph of a facade.Work 5778.A sponsor approved checkout girl passing a box over beside a stack of pancakes taking syrup, the early 1960s, U-matic dub of a commercial.Work 5776.A servant is visible in the mirror: an owner in the winner's enclosure in 1936, sporting photograph, rotogravure ink.Work 5767.A retrofitted noodle stall under a flickering tube, the decade after the blackout, environment concept painting, shot with Panavision C-series glass.Work 5764.A coat check window at the Sugar Shack in Munich, Ektachrome 400, underexposed background, poor colour registration.Work 5753.A cinematic photo of a skyscraper in a desert, kodachrome, cold light.Work 5749.A prawn pink ducking stool on Earth Day, pull down map, perspective control lens, mottled canvas backdrop.Work 5746.A crowd watching something out of frame, black and white, 35mm, grain.Work 5723.