The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A tailor working a treadle machine below a vertical stack of signage, cucoloris shadow over the crowd, halation around every tube sign, 70mm night exterior.Work 6960.A jumpy dune flank swept smooth again beside a truck driver hauling bootleg whiskey, the last trains of the old trade, casein on board cover art.Work 6947.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 hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 6902.The stall had a new owner by morning: long lens compression down a lane of a wire-tangled steam plume crossing a sign's beam, the market years after the flood laws.Work 6841.A flyer overlapping a poster for a film throughout an underpass papered solid, the morning after a show, grainy monochrome at arm's length, cheap paper that would not last a week.Work 6839.A movie poster for a film with one location, minimal, bold type block.Work 6804.A cinema marquee for a film that does not exist, movie poster, rain, night.Work 6791.Gouache elevation in muted colour of a brass label engraved with three words in the last season of the old catalogue, steel plate engraving on thin stock.Work 6785.A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday.Work 6751.A road sign at a junction of two roads that do not meet, kodachrome, heat haze.Work 6623.The first winter after the war, a slick-haired binoculars at a dark window lit only by a hotel sign, large format photograph.Work 6611.A queue at a whelk stall photographed as a corporation beach sign, Free Cinema style documentary frame, cement splice jumping the gate.Work 6610.The camera ran out: an ice cream van on the promenade in 1985, Soviet sanatorium poster, back-lit by the sea.Work 6602.A neon sign spelling a word with no vowels, long exposure, fog.Work 6567.The building was never finished: a Cinema Vox facade in Casablanca in the year the liner was launched, enamel sign painting, airbrushed on illustration board.Work 6532.The turn of the 1980s: neon sign design of a bass horn under a balcony at the end of the bar.Work 6529.A motel conference room lectern photographed as a motel sign with a creature on it, blurred telephoto frame, Instamatic 126 negative.Work 6506.A traffic signal swinging on a wire under a shrine box on a wall in the decade after the blackout, hard backlight through haze.Work 6433.Music press photograph of a strobing matchbook on a table, the height of disco, High Speed Ektachrome.Work 6418.A rabbit ear antenna on a set under a starburst sign, 1953, pulp magazine cover painting, Agfacolor stock.Work 6357.1980, an overcast seafront weather forecast board halfway into the sea, colour snapshot.Work 6356.A ranger station notice board in the style of a scrap of foil in a shoebox in a diner booth, 1987.Work 6352.A melamine bleary eyed pot roast, the World Cup summer of 1954, damascened steel plaque, sodium vapour street light.Work 6328.William Eggleston style photograph of a neon vacancy sign at dusk off a Florida county road, the bicentennial summer, grain visible in the shadows.Work 6313.A pier theatre frontage, holiday brochure photograph, the film is the wrong way round, Kodachrome 40 Type A.Work 6309.The early twenty-second century: a rain-slicked shop sign with half its letters dead, gouache concept rendering, slow shutter with moving light.Work 6301.Colour rotogravure advertisement of a hand lettered ranch hand striking a match on a thumbnail, 1959, Fujichrome transparency.Work 6286.A rooftop sign in tubular neon made of proscenium arch with stepped mouldings under a frosted glass globe, the winter of 1933, neon burning out the highlights.Work 6248.A bus stop on a coast road, kodachrome, wind, salt.Work 6238.