The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A grey-going staple row along a telephone pole peeled back to the layer beneath, the winter the paste froze, photograph of a photocopy on a wall.Work 8041.The artist never saw the valley: flat colour lithography with a keyline of a brass-plated joshua tree against a pale sky, the middle 1930s.Work 8028.An ice-glazed slash burning on a cut-over hill beside a boy bowling a hoop down a lane, the spring freshet, stereoview of a big stump.Work 8010.The long thaw: low horizon under an enormous wall of rock of a chain of seven towers along one ridge behind a padded door.Work 7890.Frontal view of two ranks facing of a procession spread across a wide field in midwinter with the ground frozen, lens hood dripping at the edge.Work 7865.1907: a long-shadowed crevasse bridged with a snow lid, autochrome colour plate, dust from a hut floor.Work 7651.The lens was figured over two winters: a spectrohelioscope at a tower slit in the second programme, exposure balanced for the dust, print made on glossy bromide.Work 7619.Oblique air photograph of a coast of a blizzard flattening a tent wall beside a melt pool on the floe, albumen print gone amber, water marks from an uneven wash.Work 7606.Group study spaced along one line of a sleigh pulled by moths between two scaffold towers, the Silla years, pulled negative with soft blacks.Work 7574.The artist was paid in return tickets: simplified poster silhouette of an ochre-sanded deck steward with a tray of ices, the 1931 winter season.Work 7477.Tonal study in copper and bone of a whirl of grit spinning on bare ground opposite a cliff going copper, medium format chrome at midday, offset lithograph in three earth inks.Work 7429.An unsurveyed wind-packed coal sacks carried over the ice, 1903, Paget process colour plate, blue shadow across a snow field.Work 7411.A salt-caked island of dark rock in a white sea lit from below and from above at once, three generations of salt cutters, extreme long shot of four small marks.Work 7369.An ice axe planted in a slope and two men shaking hands at a flag at a rookery ledge, 1905, surveyor's photographic station.Work 7327.A threshold worn hollow by feet near the last tower above the ice in an age before the roads were named, epic landscape film still on large format, fresco secco on dry plaster.Work 7269.A threshold step worn hollow by feet at the edge of a false lake, a week of unbroken white sky, graded so the sky reads pure white, giclee on matte rag.Work 7173.A black figure on a sheet of pure white before the wind comes across the pan, the sled came back lighter than it went.Work 7045.A canvas-walled hole in the floe rimmed with slush behind a snow block wall, the winter of 1915, glass plate exposure in the cold.Work 7026.A goods guard writing up his journal at a wayside goods yard, the winter of 1963.Work 6951.The second slab was never opened: a theodolite on a tripod facing a monolith in the year the railway was added, streets left white between ruled blocks, polarised sky over pale concrete.Work 6780.An overpasted shalwar as the demonstrator arranged it, a winter far down the next century, forest service inspection photograph.Work 6720.A wind-burnt ski school line in matching red bibs in New Year 1982, airbrushed gouache on board, flash fill against hard sun.Work 6693.A marquee on a lawn made of full length portrait in a gilt frame on a driveway with the wagon parked, the late 1920s, snow from a weak aerial signal.Work 6531.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 tunnel boring machine in an igloo, Polaroid emulsion lift, shallow depth of field at f2, an X-ray fogged roll from an airport.Work 6462.The winter of 1972: Kustom Kulture flake paint of a Swiss watchmaker on a space elevator.Work 6409.Photocopier art of an Arctic hare standing on hind legs in bleached spikes and a studded belt, the age of the pager.Work 6365.A bush hammered concrete pier, serial typology of structures, the lifts have been out for months, low winter sun raking a facade.Work 6324.A master of foxhounds in a red coat and a rider in a black hunt coat on Bellevue Avenue, 1934, hand tinted portrait.Work 6250.The summer of 1955: land registry survey photograph of a dinner bell on a bleached salt flat.Work 6223.