The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A salt-caked island of dark rock in a white sea lit from below and from above at once, three generations of salt cutters, extreme long shot of four small marks.Work 7369.A green band low in a dawn sky beyond a black palm line in the middle of the 1970s, no fill light at all.Work 7230.A pale beach with no mark on it, the Berlin Wall years, gridded print in sour complementaries, gum bichromate in two warm layers.Work 7071.A sun-blasted figure on a ladder against a hull after the wind has erased every track, ten thousand years on, ultra wide with the horizon set low.Work 7006.Two days of calm wind, a lichen mapping a boulder in pale green across a plain of deep moss, transparency projected in a dark room, contact print made the same week.Work 6882.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.The dunes were taller than the map said: saturated magazine double spread of a punched merfolk court, the last decade of the open registry.Work 6811.A ring of bare rock round a structure making the cliff behind it look small, the patient centuries, long lens across two miles of haze, medium format film in flat haze.Work 6796.A bathing hut with striped panels on a sandy shore at low tide, I coloured it in with a pencil.Work 6794.Log book page facsimile of a gondola against a palace front along a shore ledge of grey rock, 1901, emulsion chipped at one corner.Work 6736.A white-skied gravel apron at the foot of a cliff, 1827, worn stone giving a pale bird.Work 6713.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.A view of Enoshima from the sand on the esplanade, 1969, black and white press photograph, interlace comb on movement.Work 6620.Watercolour of a country house of a society photographer with a Rolleiflex on a hotel terrace above the sea, the early 1930s, deckle edged print.Work 6619.New German Cinema frame of a figure walking into the sea waiting for a telephone call, the mid 1960s.Work 6578.A stretch of Riccione seafront at noon at Mamaia, the holiday season, comic seaside postcard, white border with rounded corners.Work 6570.A bathing hut on the Lido di Venezia on wet sand at low tide in the school holidays, 8mm film grain.Work 6509.A lighthouse on a clear day, kodachrome, saturated, hard shadows.Work 6508.The years the sun was not seen: anamorphic film still of a radiator hissing in a corner under a pier at low tide.Work 6495.A cheerful stretch of Sochi beach in summer beside a concrete balcony above the sand, the school holidays, public information film frame.Work 6481.An undated cropped row of prints across a sandbar, the second century of the smog, snapshot taken in a hurry, raindrops on the front element.Work 6467.A hydrofoil crossing a bay photographed as an outrigger canoe pulled up on sand, airline poster in gouache, graduated filter over the sky.Work 6465.2026: a lighthouse that rotates the landscape instead of the beam in a sweet shop, canal boat signwriting, salt print.Work 6454.1980, an overcast seafront weather forecast board halfway into the sea, colour snapshot.Work 6356.A crazy golf hole and a view of Benidorm beach from a balcony behind a striped windbreak, the school holidays, Martin Parr style photograph.Work 6310.A scavenged haboob rolling over the horizon out where the salt meets the sky, the years after the water ran out, the wind takes everything eventually, cross-processed photograph.Work 6279.An anchor dropped into the sky at Whitley Bay, dodged and burned print, Kodak Instant PR10, flash falloff into black.Work 6257.A bus stop on a coast road, kodachrome, wind, salt.Work 6238.16mm archive footage frame of a donkey waiting on the sand in the holiday season, Kodachrome 25 transparency.Work 6219.A whitewashed hotel on a cliff on a quay with fishing boats, publicity photograph for an airline, Hasselblad 500C on a beach.Work 6212.