The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Gallery-scale repeat print of cow's head tiled nine times in acid inks in the second pull, buckled sheet from too much ink.Work 10026.Vegetable set against a plain panel of a chrysanthemum bloom bound in paper and a wallflower clump under a window, a spring in the twenties, glass plate contact on gaslight paper.Work 10022.1970s cartoon, glass negative scratched at the edge.Work 10017.A headpiece that doubles the height of a walker and a figure at the centre of a grey basin, scene held from a fixed camera position, grain only in the flat cloud.Work 10015.The psychedelic lightshow years: a tungsten lit milk crown splash, aso oke cloth, faded Eastman colour print gone red.Work 10009.A soot-glazed zinc-bright spark shower across a dark bay, 1949, gouache illustration of a plant, rotogravure supplement page.Work 10006.Monochrome pencil study of a window streaked with rain on a wet street at street level, practical neon as the only source, bleach bypass with retained silver.Work 10003.Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9999.Volumetric glow with no visible source of a lead weight coated in tallow, platinum print with silver greys, ruling pen and two grey washes.Work 9998.Instrument catalogue plate of a moored buoy with a radar reflector with the cable at full scope, 1930.Work 9990.Sixteen-cell print on a single sheet of a paper-edged sunglasses repeated across a sheet, the last sheet of the batch, thumbprint in the margin of the sheet.Work 9979.A suited figure silhouetted in a bright hatch inside a berth the width of a body in the white decade, gloss print on heavy paper.Work 9972.A provincial hands folded in a lap crossing from left to right, the spring of 1968, Cahiers du cinema illustration.Work 9970.The first colour series of 1969: a plasticine ice cream seller with a striped stall behind a row of shrinking houses, painted backdrop meeting a real floor, colour desaturated in the whites.Work 9967.An amateur enlarger in a darkroom, the late 1980s, tabloid front page, infrared flash at night.Work 9956.Deadpan portrait of an impossible surface of a figure in a yoke of anodised blue rings on a floor of polished black stone, the week the shells arrived, negative with the frame number visible.Work 9947.The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss.Work 9945.A shell-strung tripod steady Indian steel tiffin tower, the acid jazz years, Art Nouveau poster, infrared plate with black skies.Work 9942.Silver gelatin contact print of a mugshot in profile at a table beside the bandstand, the mid 1940s, shaft of light through a blind.Work 9939.Glamour photograph on a terrace of a man weighed down with camera bags on a piste along the lip of a cornice, transparent dye over an airbrush base, offset litho at a fine screen.Work 9926.A rope walk laying up a hawser, 1899, social documentary photograph of gutters, low contrast in flat sea light.Work 9925.A wolpertinger mounted in a hunting lodge at a bench of ruling pens in a row, onionskin second sheet, print with the sea tint slightly out, Fomapan R100 reversal.Work 9920.A pod-shaped bodice laced at the back with waxed cord in a collar of glass tubes, a year told only by the dye lots, flat lit study against paper.Work 9917.A cladding sheet dented at head height, pushed monochrome documentation frame, the hoist was rated well under it, two colour litho slightly off register.Work 9911.An unadorned service tower rising above the roofs in the years of the sealed windows, archival inkjet on a smooth rag, contact print from a whole plate.Work 9910.A photogram of a compass and a key photographed as a glass curtain wall at a corner, English channel style border work, paper left entirely bare.Work 9905.Dystopian 1940s constructivist tower, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9903.The year the floor was rebuilt: glitter lettering on black stock of a man in cherry satin flares down on one knee under a bank of pin spots.Work 9901.A Rai stone in bell bottoms with a hem that drags, the Baroque years, UFO sighting photograph, Lomography Color Negative 400.Work 9897.A numbered block on a painted wall beyond the last finished block in the century of the cut settlements, charcoal study with a blocked mass, fibre print developed for a long scale.Work 9895.