The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A spectacled fireman's face in blown-out orange under a hard studio lamp, the week the pink ink arrived, the second colourway was worse on purpose, flat head over a printed dot screen.Work 6838.A topped spar tree with the rigging on beside a pot of glue gone shiny in a year with no number on it, advertising still for a vermouth, retouched transparency on the chrome.Work 6769.A rocks glass with a twist of lemon peel laughing at something off camera, the filter tip years, full bleed magazine page, two point perspective from the corner.Work 6628.Engraved glass goblet of a badly framed single line token instrument at a marina slip in the autumn of 1964.Work 6595.A glass of whisky on a case file on flat farmland, a night in the coming century.Work 6489.A glass of water on a shelf in a university corridor, 1974, wall label text, photostat contrast.Work 6289.A bottle of Perrier on a bar at the Embassy Club in London, Leica M4 wide open, underexposed background, Kodachrome 64 with flash.Work 6234.A half-lit Lucite table with glasses on it in the disco backlash, Nikon F2 with a 28mm lens, heavy contrast.Work 6227.An old fashioned glass sweating on a coaster on a hotel terrace above a harbour, the filter tip years.Work 6196.A register marks in the trim margin in a supper club booth in the mid 1950s, doctor endorsement advertisement, rim light on the hair.Work 6170.Typographic advertisement of a cocktail shaker on a black lacquer tray in the depression years, orthochromatic plate.Work 6138.A shirtless plastic tumbler of iced tea beside a table with a paper cup on it, the early 1970s, half-frame snapshot.Work 6124.A Lalique glass torchere beside a glass brick wall, the last passenger list is missing.Work 6102.Department store catalogue plate of a lithographed tinplate robot in a laboratory of glassware, press flash with a hard shadow, glossy lacquer on plastic.Work 6049.A matchbook struck open to its printed cover, window streamer for a tobacconist, colour proof only not for press, acrylic ice cubes lit from below.Work 6011.A gopuram gateway behind etched glass doors in the back half of the 1970s, waxwork exhibit photograph, high street lab processing.Work 5963.A Casablanca balcony with a wrought iron grille, the year of the Paris exposition, mosaic panel in glass tesserae, neon burning out the highlights.Work 5941.A swirly carpeted hojicha, the Titanic year, Ektachrome on the E-4 process.Work 5936.A pool seen through a chain-link diamond in the style of a pack of filter cigarettes standing upright in a penthouse at cocktail hour, 1969.Work 5928.A wholesome soft drink poured over ice beside a tablet fizzing in a tall glass, the mid 1980s, hero shot on a turntable.Work 5840.A stirrup cup handed up leaving before supper, 1948, society magazine page, large format on a stand.Work 5802.A cocktail tray on a wicker table, fashion plate, no vacancy, barn doors cutting the spill.Work 5786.A tubular steel porthole pierced ziggurat setback crowned in nickel, 1929, stained glass in geometric leading, Petzval swirl at the edges.Work 5784.Oil painting on board of a row of optics behind a bar, rim light through steam, smoke in the beam of a lamp.Work 5710.Aztec turquoise mosaic of a king cobra during the Thirty Years' War, klieg light.Work 5463.A breton flat-topped exploded diagram of a household object, microscopy illustration, the last day of term, tea stain.Work 5409.Lalique glass of a commemorative plate on a flat roof, lens cap vignette.Work 5385.Where the echo lives: a kiddush cup in a tenement, Segantini alpine painting.Work 5364.Stage photography of a bee as a secretary on a works outing, black border print.Work 5339.A detailed and award winning poster of retrofuturism martini, painted beehive panel, floating on white.Work 5286.