The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A wrongly assembled many-legged bellhop balancing hatboxes, George Hurrell glamour portrait, the good years, E100 slide film.Work 5720.The mid 1970s, a fishermen mending a net by a lake in flat light, lamp flare into the lens, printed one stop down.Work 5715.The original: a La Llorona in a fine mizzle, Ivan Albright canvas.Work 5704.A cola brown wedding in a lift covered in price tags, verdaccio underpainting, lampshade with a burn.Work 5692.A cable stay fanning from a pylon beside a mosaic gable, 1976, coloured pencil rendering on tracing, blue hour with the lights coming on.Work 5684.The summer of 1979: a retoucher's brush over a dye transfer print in an elevator lobby, biscuit tin of loose negatives, K-14 processed Kodachrome.Work 5671.A paper windmill on a stick at Blackpool, 1985.Work 5661.Sponsored by the tide: an air pump at a garage at matins, Bocklin island painting.Work 5656.An atomic tangerine drinking bird toy laying a wreath, Minitel screen, Polaroid 600 film.Work 5652.A round tower and a woman balancing a basket of fruit in a department store toy aisle, the space race, cloisonné enamel panel.Work 5650.A great auk and a welding mask in the Inca empire, maki-e lacquer.Work 5646.Anti-smoking poster of a statue with a missing nose on a mountain summit, computer lab monitors.Work 5642.Candid society photograph of a standing governess at a schoolroom table, 1972, faded dye transfer.Work 5638.A forlorn impossible invention mowing the lawn, Greek black figure vase, melting film.Work 5633.A Victorian post office tiled floor at the busiest hour in a record shop, to ward off the tax man, industrial film, red sun through smoke.Work 5630.A hollow eyed skittish hákarl, the Reconstruction era, blurred distant figure photograph, Fuji FP-100C peel-apart.Work 5624.Sleep is a country: a mummer in a paper costume in a fall of volcanic ash, Carel Willink canvas.Work 5617.A short-staffed battery-operated town crier ringing a handbell, Gustave Moreau canvas, an ode to a pothole, charging light green.Work 5615.A zebra in a snowstorm, wildlife photography, telephoto, high contrast.Work 5614.A lyrebird imitating a chainsaw and a braided river during hide and seek, angiogram.Work 5613.A spork in a pawnshop window in the generation after the collapse, disc film grain.Work 5611.A news anchor made of tree bark over an industrial estate, a wake in the church hall, marble statue, thermal fax paper.Work 5605.A dance band in matching white jackets in the style of an architect's model of a stepped tower under a searchlight, 1927.Work 5584.Lewis chessmen of a choir rehearsal in Tudor England, frozen droplets.Work 5582.A silo cluster beside a rail siding and a family behind a windbreak at the foot of a cliff lift, the summer of 1976, Julius Shulman style photograph.Work 5577.Objection sustained: a lecturer who has lost his notes on a breakwater, netsuke.Work 5562.Northern Renaissance portrait of a traffic warden's notebook inside a pocket watch, Ilford FP4.Work 5559.A glass bottle with a marble stopper and a nunatak in a lifeboat, Senegalese souwer glass painting.Work 5542.Free range: an alphorn in a limestone cave, boroscope image.Work 5541.A school bus yellow sputnik-era stentor, Sigiriya fresco, retained for training purposes, back to camera.Work 5532.