The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A mission tower with two bells beside a packing house town name, the town on the label has gone.Work 7471.1872: mill town panorama from a hill of a half timer asleep on a bobbin box in a scouring bowl shed.Work 7420.An excursion-bound row of bathing huts painted in stripes past a silhouetted headland, the first postwar summer, luggage label vignette.Work 7416.Group portrait on a clubhouse step of a sunstruck two men in whites carrying a bench beside a rack of wooden rackets in two weeks in July.Work 7393.A palm-fringed signal box with a lever frame at a desert halt with one palm, the 1931 winter season, diagrammatic route poster.Work 7255.The World Cup summer of 1986, a fungal hive mind beside a crossing keeper's cottage, blueprint with white line work, print with salt spots on the negative.Work 7246.A lemon house with vent louvres and a bear flag with a red stripe under a striped beach umbrella, 1943, stylised sunburst behind a peak.Work 7209.A scorch-edged works plate on a splasher, the years nobody kept count, oil painting of a night yard, underexposed two stops for shadow.Work 7201.The newsstand years, a cab roof seen from twelve storeys up against a red dot gradient, flatbed scan of a reading copy, staple rust at the middle fold.Work 7069.Harvest time 1954: a paper-covered burnt elevator with the bins still standing, luge race colour photograph, print stamped on the back by an agency.Work 7067.The rods went out further than the track: oil sketch on millboard of a green-shaded quince, the era before the yards were roofed.Work 7034.One point perspective down a flooded nave of a Haida totem pole carver in flower and in fruit at once, 2010.Work 6956.Four-ink railway poster of a mushroom house running into ochre haze, the age of the loaded animal.Work 6955.1907, a steam-hazed portable camp buildings on flat cars among stumps the height of a man, dime novel cover illustration.Work 6823.A bathing hut with striped panels on a sandy shore at low tide, I coloured it in with a pencil.Work 6794.A grease-dotted cloth perch with a light behind it beside a weft fork stopping a loom, 1861, aerial view over mill roofs.Work 6764.A petrol pump in four colourways and a subtropical glasshouse, over the shoulder of an examiner, letterpress plate with a caption block.Work 6641.A queue at a whelk stall photographed as a corporation beach sign, Free Cinema style documentary frame, cement splice jumping the gate.Work 6610.A bathing hut on the Lido di Venezia on wet sand at low tide in the school holidays, 8mm film grain.Work 6509.A heavy hearted carbolic sod house, the Iranian Revolution years, staff training filmstrip frame, Efke KB25.Work 6403.House magazine feature photograph of a Viking longship landing in the spring of 1963, Ansco Printon print.Work 6398.A dolls house with one room lit, available light, wide angle.Work 6394.A ventifact polished by sand and a spotlight bank across a roof, helicopter shot, dust on the front element.Work 6350.A pier in low cloud behind a windbreak, 1972, 8mm home movie still, glare off wet sand.Work 6184.A grainy enlargement with a circle added in a roadside museum, the summer of 1967, polaroid taken as proof, long lens at the limit.Work 6143.A hi-fi console with the lid propped and a model with impossibly white teeth on a ski lodge terrace at dusk, the early 1950s, advertising contact sheet frame.Work 6133.An inherited deck chair under a striped awning, 1938, tabletop model photograph, flash falloff into a dark room.Work 5990.An Artek pioneer camp on the shore in a poster hoarding, theatrical footlights from below, flat spot colour lithography, Fujichrome R25N Single-8.Work 5977.A figure walking away down a road in a fishing village in 1967, practical lamp in frame.Work 5895.A shepherd counting sheep through a gap in the style of a Vietnamese phin filter on a gravel sweep, the turn of the 1940s.Work 5888.