The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A dry watercourse with no bank left beyond the edge of the mapped route, silver gelatin print toned copper, negative with grit marks in the sky, archival pigment print on rag paper.Work 7138.Silhouetted tree against a graded sky of a roadrunner on hard ground with the grade stencilled beside it, 1920.Work 7048.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 third summer of the survey: a wind-shaped far ridge reduced to a grey suggestion, symmetrical composition on a flat horizon, mechanical tint laid over a flat.Work 6808.A sky with two horizons against the curve of a fuel tank in the hour before the light changed, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster.Work 6773.The geophysical year of 1958, an unlit air hose tended by hand recovered on the second attempt, cine film frame enlargement.Work 6659.1939: an antenna array on a desert plain under a plexiglass canopy, black and white science fiction film still, hard flash on chrome.Work 6633.The long dry: a cloud moving over the deep end at a desert motor court, faded album page, frozen dust at a high shutter speed.Work 6522.A season after the convoys stopped: polarised landscape photograph of a radio mast guyed with cable in a cloud of its own dust.Work 6482.A candidate on a campaign bus on a safari lodge veranda, New Year 1955.Work 6445.A suntanned high rise hotel above a bay in the middle of a dry lake bed, the decade after the grid failed, the next tank is three days out, Ektachrome transparency.Work 6426.An eel catcher in a petrified forest, argyrotype, Kentmere 400.Work 6325.A dry lake bed in white glare at the foot of a rusted water tower, 16mm blow-up frame, bounce off a salt pan.Work 6294.A temporary trench in a dry lake bed, 1981, faded to a yellow cast.Work 6218.A survey stake in bare ground made of circle of stones on a hillside along a Roman road, the summer of 1969, onionskin second sheet.Work 6130.A list of numbers typed in a column on a dry lake bed, the early 1980s.Work 6103.A king size cigarette machine with its pull knobs on a ranch fence at golden hour, the mid 1950s, nine out of ten prefer it, cropped and keylined layout.Work 6099.Film loop projected on a wall of a barchan dune with a sharp crest, resin coated paper print, Tri-X in a gallery.Work 6056.A net curtained dry lake bed with sailing stones with a road atlas on the bonnet, the year the fridge arrived, oblique aerial photograph.Work 6038.A dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze.Work 5930.A teepee unit at a Wigwam Motel, amateur colour slide, it was hotter than it looks, Newton rings from a glass mount.Work 5828.An articulated tanker on a salt flat at the base of a radio mast, the refinery still burns.Work 5618.Bernd and Hilla Becher typology of a giant african land snail on a desert island, through binoculars.Work 5607.A storm arriving over a flat landscape, cinematic, beautiful.Work 5499.A moated widowed drought-cracked riverbed, airbrush painting, the flower rota, polarised sky.Work 5404.A storm arriving over a flat landscape, long exposure, dark sky.Work 5359.A dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze.Work 5257.A pollen storm over a pine forest made of shipwreck survivor on a desert island, wintry, x-ray, pinhole.Work 5255.Membership certificate of a rock glacier in deep winter, smog.Work 5224.A solar prominence and a chaparral hillside after the show, Turkish Karagoz shadow play.Work 5161.