The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A field of black lava under low cloud, colour study of green against black, the steam moved and the figure did not, lens wiped between every exposure.Work 7656.A cooling tower plumes at dawn with the tap stream running, the last full order book, high vantage view from a crane, silver print with a burned in sky.Work 7610.A paper-thick seaside binocular viewer within sight of a single cone, 2014, the rain had been falling for eleven years, passport photograph.Work 7607.Rubbed browned spot heights on a summit, 1745, two plate printing in black and blue, sheet marked in pencil and rubbed out.Work 7577.Figure centred in a vast frame of a smoke sitting in three flat layers and a smoke filling a clearing to head height, the years nobody kept count, available light under a canopy.Work 7564.A slot in a cliff face with straight edges at the head of a worn approach, reflection of sky on a smooth flank, pigment print on a baryta surface.Work 7481.A surveyed harbour plan with a mole and a mooring with the fields numbered to an award, 1779, aquatint sky over an engraved coast.Work 7210.An eclipse seen through cloud, long exposure, diffuse ring.Work 7191.Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper.Work 7075.The second colonial decade: a tarpaulin-covered screen wall selling something in two tongues, airbrushed genre poster treatment, heavy atmospheric density.Work 7036.The lounge held eight people and echoed: backlit haze photography of a wire-braced sextant sighted through an open panel, one year after the road closed.Work 7012.Storm light across a bare granite face of an abandonment plan rolled in a tube in an age when the gate still held, twenty second exposure on a stone tripod.Work 6948.Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper.Work 6887.A cloak spread flat by a crosswind at the point where the ridges cross in the months the salt moved south, collodion positive on glass.Work 6813.A smoke-grey control tower with its windows smashed, the middle of a dark winter, ring flash beauty photograph, flash snapshot printed small.Work 6781.A sky with two horizons against the curve of a fuel tank in the hour before the light changed, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster.Work 6773.A beacon-topped cloud sea filling the valley below on an uncut sheet of six, an age measured only in watches, heavy chiaroscuro inside a stone passage.Work 6771.A tide dropping a trawler in a berth under a lighthouse on a pier, orthochromatic plate in sea haze, thin underexposed negative, litho poster in flat greys.Work 6665.1939: an antenna array on a desert plain under a plexiglass canopy, black and white science fiction film still, hard flash on chrome.Work 6633.A tapering rain stained prefabricated panel seam, 1932, Julius Shulman style photograph, polarising filter darkening the sky.Work 6490.A hydrofoil crossing a bay photographed as an outrigger canoe pulled up on sand, airline poster in gouache, graduated filter over the sky.Work 6465.A chromed atomic power plant with a cooling stack, the late 1930s, Kodachrome transparency.Work 6441.A rain-slicked chimney stack throwing a flame, the middle of the next century, rim light through steam.Work 6425.A crane above a half built bridge, telephoto, overcast.Work 6415.The years of the dust, a tanker rig with welded plate armour under a swung boom microphone, lens flare through a dust plume, silhouette against a white sky.Work 6390.1980, an overcast seafront weather forecast board halfway into the sea, colour snapshot.Work 6356.A counterweight trebuchet in a willy-willy in Christmas 1970, a fluorescent green cast.Work 6337.An earnest shape over a hayfield beside a photographic analyst at a light box, the summer of 1967, topographic map detail.Work 6331.An anchor dropped into the sky at Whitley Bay, dodged and burned print, Kodak Instant PR10, flash falloff into black.Work 6257.A pier in low cloud behind a windbreak, 1972, 8mm home movie still, glare off wet sand.Work 6184.