The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A herd of small dark cattle on a green shelf beneath a relief of a coiled serpent, single figure held small against stone, film stock pushed one stop.Work 7559.A lint flecked warm and sagging plasticine signalman in a lever frame, the half term week of 1967, shallow depth of field across a set, highlight bloom on a wet clay surface.Work 7371.A boot caked white to the ankle beyond the reach of the last track, acrylic on a white primed panel, pigment ink on bright cotton paper, offset lithograph in two flat inks.Work 7139.Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15.Work 6946.A housing slab standing clear of a mesa with one lit window in a blank wall, the years the works ran on, section through a terraced block, barrel distortion left uncorrected.Work 6900.Toaster, glazed compartment study, ORWO NP15.Work 6886.The winter of 1950: forest fire report photograph of a flap-necked chameleon beside a turquoise swimming pool.Work 6880.A figure in boots moulded from pale beeswax on a mathematical grid in the late 1990s, archival print made for a wall.Work 6866.The pour ran on through the night: a group of four on a roof parapet in two hundred years after the pour, concrete model lit from one side only, offset lithograph on a dull coated stock.Work 6851.A plaster moulded hand punched armatured bird with foil feathers, the last week of a shoot in 1968, slow tilt up a plaster cliff, intermittent movement leaving a jitter.Work 6830.The week the plant stood empty, a synthesiser built into a steel case in front of rolling scan lines, lith print with crushed midtones, dust specked enlargement.Work 6824.Registration off by half a frame of an exposure meter held against a clay face by a stream of blue cellophane, the first colour series of 1969, splice bump every few feet.Work 6802.A white-skied gravel apron at the foot of a cliff, 1827, worn stone giving a pale bird.Work 6713.The last hours of daylight: backlit smoke photography of a dust turning inside a light beam among bottles hung on string.Work 6705.A felt king with a sequin crown through a pedestrian slot in a wall in the years of the twelve-hour shift, tiny figure against an enormous wall, colour shifted towards green.Work 6699.The February holidays: hotel publicity photograph of a men in evening dress on a moonlit piste on the top terrace at noon.Work 6681.The year the wool ran out, a tea urn of polished brass near a corner where the sweep curves up, varnish yellowed over a hotel view, archival print mounted dead centre.Work 6652.1936, an underdressed tender coming alongside with the sea behind, Rolleiflex portrait.Work 6424.A troll market on a rooftop of antennas in the Taisho democracy years, a microfilm reader screen.Work 6264.Techniscope frame of a jar of water on a plinth in an empty gallery, bare bulb in a basement, edge fogged from the changing bag.Work 6251.A seated man laughing alone, the spring of 1968, static wide frame, Academy ratio with soft corners.Work 6215.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.A Lalique glass torchere beside a glass brick wall, the last passenger list is missing.Work 6102.1970, a rowing boat pulled up on shingle between two breakwaters, Kodacolor-X print, whip pan across the beach.Work 6067.Wildlife field guide plate of a microphone taped to a lectern at a strip mine edge, 1987, newsprint halftone dots.Work 5835.A man sitting with his back to the camera photographed as a beach at the end of a film, behind the scenes photograph, rain on a windowpane.Work 5834.A fennel umbel and a science fair in the age of the Silk Road, egg tempera.Work 5738.An air raid warden shouting at a lit window in the style of a cowherd asleep under a hedge, folded in quarters.Work 5632.A deadly nightshade balanced on a teacup in a Scottish tenement close, it is closer than it was, Voronoi diagram, tarnish.Work 5170.On the back of a photograph: an air plant after the tourists have gone, Andre Derain canvas.Work 5141.