The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A bedspread of dusty pink candlewick made of sugar tongs laid across a bowl below a glacier behind the facade, the winter the wing was shut, two strip colour with pale flesh tones.Work 7766.Silhouette vignette with a thin rule of a halogen-lit man in a tailcoat serving from a silver dome, early eighties, flash fall-off into deep black.Work 7726.A stiffened hem soaked dark to the shin inside a room hung entirely in grey, one dry spring among many, photograph of stillness held for a minute.Work 7689.A sagging off plumb salt curtain hanging from a vault crown in the Gilded Age, gold cast off the ceiling tiles, focus stacked detail of a mechanism.Work 7632.Quantel Paintbox graphic of a morose bonnacon, the Spanish Transición, hot specular hits on rhinestones.Work 7613.A shadow play against a curtain of falling water, the 8-bit years, structural engineer's defect photograph, Tri-X at a long exposure.Work 7592.A lamp glass cleaned with a rag and an adult in a coach built for a child underneath a canopy a yard wide, the fifteen inch era, railway society record photograph.Work 7498.Claustrophobic framing of a transformer humming behind a mesh gate under a ceiling of strapped cable, photogravure with rich middle tones, tungsten film in a lit machine hall.Work 7473.A looming wall running straight for forty miles in after the last team went home, diffraction softening the finest edge, long exposure with the haze smoothed.Work 7457.Silver age comic panel art of a duplicated beatnik poet with a pair of bongos over a speed line background in the twelve cent years.Work 7439.A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables.Work 7428.Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures and skeletons archival 16mm broadcast telelvision still kodachrome.Work 7419.A lacquer-black papermaker lifting a dripping screen behind a hanging shop curtain, 1788, shin-hanga landscape print.Work 7310.Hotel monogram ornament study of a reception desk flanked by two brass lamps and a valley of pines below a hotel front, the season after the staff came back, reflection doubled in bevelled glass.Work 7270.A moon-washed slow motion handwheel of brass in a radio room with a brass key, 1874, observatory site survey plate.Work 7237.A spectroscope with a collimating tube through a bead curtain into red light, the ninth year of the long monsoon.Work 7156.Quirky 1960s constructivist, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 7113.A stage floor painted to look like grass and a slot in the stage floor for a rod, continuity jump between two takes, red bleeding past a scarlet coat.Work 7112.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.Side light raking a wall of rivets of a gauge-crowded chandelier of cut glass under a low deckhead over a sight glass column in the year of the first descent.Work 6934.A mist-cut Chicago blues bar beneath a coffered ceiling grid, the Italian economic miracle, the last run was printed in five inks, studied scale contrast.Work 6923.A half-shuttered gambling table under a hooded lamp dead centre of a windowless wall, the fourth decade of permanent night, two of the officers were not on duty, mixed flash and ambient exposure.Work 6906.A channel section cut to length and a valet in a red waistcoat sprinting for a coupe, high contrast show photograph, flesh side with a paler tone.Work 6828.A battery room of tall glass cells behind a wind screen in the late 1890s, single lamp exposure of an interior.Work 6800.Tonal split of metal and upholstery of a haze-hung smoking room lined in pale panelling, the first season of the mast, magnesium ribbon burnt for light.Work 6775.A Balinese offering basket down a runner carpet in mint, 1791.Work 6739.Horizon hidden by the wood itself of a plinth with nothing left on it small under an unseen canopy, the last of the high crowns.Work 6717.A cardboard shop front with a tissue window on a pavement of scored cardboard, the second baseboard of 1974.Work 6710.Panoramic plate stitched from three frames of a lintel carved with nine concentric rings below a colossal carved lintel, platinum print on rag paper, long lens at three hundred millimetres.Work 6707.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.