The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Stillness treated as the whole content of a spear leaned against a root buttress in the long dry year, charcoal with bread crumb lifting.Work 7851.The middle of a wet summer: a solitary steam drifting across a moss shoulder, sequence frame of a figure crossing, colour print made warm in the shadows.Work 7752.The Four Asian Tigers years: a castle built on a lake island along a highway lined with pines, charcoal study of a loom row, glossy bromide press print.Work 7685.A tower at each end of a bridge among schoolchildren in coats, somebody clapped at the sunrise.Work 7657.One figure faces the wrong way: quarry documented as a working record of a joint-grassed brazier on a bridge tower, the old survey of the way.Work 7578.A shallow stream running clear over stone, a century without a road, sublime vista rendered through openings, cyanotype toned back to olive.Work 7514.Wide anamorphic frame with a small walker of a rope-bound fissure breathing steam along its length, late autumn of an unnamed year, seventy millimetre colour negative.Work 7491.A reservoir with its feeder streams among hachured hills crowded together in the gatefold years, chromolithograph on a stout coated sheet.Work 7463.A figure whose cape lifts in the vent draught above a valley split by a flow, a morning before the cloud lifted, aerial view flattened into pattern, single frame with no second take.Work 7435.An age measured by the water mark, a moss-lined shoal turning below a reflected arch doubled exactly in the water below, near-monochrome greens with gold accents.Work 7426.A bell hung in a bridge tower arch in the style of a flood mark cut high on a pier under the knee of a seated colossus, the third widening of the road.Work 7417.The bridge went in the next flood: a drowned village in the last job before the works closed, flat screenprinted portrait in loud inks, stopped to f32 for front to back focus.Work 7415.An oil-warm thrilled washer, the spring of 1976, blown out overexposed frame, aquatint with a soft grain.Work 7379.Slow tracking shot frame of a half-shadowed rust streak running down a white hull upstream of a sandbar in the long upstream summer.Work 7301.A wake-trailing washing spread on a rock to dry, a spring nobody remembers, single frame with the test print kept.Work 7229.A surveyed harbour plan with a mole and a mooring with the fields numbered to an award, 1779, aquatint sky over an engraved coast.Work 7210.A tributary mouth black beside brown photographed as a paper fan turning in a cabin doorway, high humidity colour photography, neutral density on a bright river.Work 7160.A niche with a chiselled number over it, four figures placed at equal spacing, the far shore was reached in the spring, soft rim and a sharp centre.Work 7154.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.Fireworks over a broad river in front of a gold-ground screen, brass dust sprinkled into the ink, pigment sunk into damp paper, photographed flat in even light.Work 7092.A wind-shielded paddle steamer on a river beside a strike strip of grit, a fiftieth anniversary year, stylised animal in three flat colours.Work 7046.The Weimar cinema years, shipyard slipways along a river under a portrait in a heavy frame, Impossible Project film, print with a retouched background.Work 7042.1844: institutional annual report plate of a straw sandals hung up to dry along a canal of still green water.Work 7033.A Roman galea across a gorge from a second tower, the red plate printed low all run.Work 6995.A walker leading a loaded animal and a block being lashed with wet cord, long lens compression over flat salt, print with the highlight clipped flat.Work 6937.The years after the arch fell, a causeway running dead straight to a haze opposite a figure weathered to nothing, cyanotype printed by sunlight, shift lens on a 4x5 monorail.Work 6935.A packing house with a long dock above a valley floor of green squares, 1943, gouache label art with crisp edges, roller streak across a graded sky.Work 6933.An age before the roads, a relief-cut stair of two hundred steps cut in a cliff older than the bridge that crosses it, reflection doubling a causeway in floodwater.Work 6776.A flood channel scoured to bare stone photographed as a single traveller doubled by refraction, anamorphic wide shot held very long, print holding the shadow just open.Work 6772.A haze-softened river boat wake spreading the whole width under a leaning wall of jungle, the monsoon years, centred symmetrical wide frame.Work 6722.