The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Joel Meyerowitz style photograph of a still empty motel pool at dusk, the long summer of 1977, glare off the water.Work 6501.A guitar trio beside a pool in an upper deck lounge, the hotel opened two seasons late.Work 6494.A swimming gala at a lido photographed as an empty beach in the rain, saucy seaside postcard, tracking lines at the bottom.Work 6471.A courtyard with a shallow pool in a panel housing district, the tenants were moved out in stages.Work 6405.A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples.Work 6395.A bone-white pool ladder half in shadow behind a sliding glass door, the long summer of 1977, square format snapshot.Work 6385.Oblique aerial photograph of a mosaic panel on a gable wall in a Chandigarh forecourt, 1928, Ektachrome 64 transparency.Work 6380.A swimming pool with a tiled sunray floor and a guide with a numbered paddle at an airport viewing terrace, 1930, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement.Work 6345.Pencil study on trace of a colonnade of tapering arches beside a reflecting pool, stopped down to f22 throughout, infrared rendering foliage white.Work 6342.A suntanned gondola under a stone bridge at the edge of a turquoise lagoon, the early 1970s, the pool was built the year after, travel trade advertisement.Work 6287.An aproned dog at the edge of the water beside a pool ladder, the last week of August, piece to camera by a spokesman.Work 6278.A blue pool vacuum hose on a night express, 1927, holiday album photograph, rotogravure printing.Work 6269.An overexposed concrete balcony above the sand, the late 1960s, yard light at night.Work 6263.A wall of trophies in a panelled den in the style of a leaf floating in the deep end in a fenced backyard, the Eisenhower years.Work 6230.A sand-covered corner of the Jubilee Pool at Penzance under a blue umbrella, 1976, holiday camp brochure page.Work 6226.A reflection of a palm in the water and a pool party nobody came to beside an ice machine, the summer of 1976, Ed Ruscha style photograph.Work 6193.Two days before we left: a pool cover half rolled back in the long summer of 1977, faded holiday snapshot, chromatic fringing on the coping.Work 6164.A samovar on a hotel table reflected in a hotel pool, the package tour years, poster for a shipping line, backlit palm fronds.Work 6128.A sectional elevation with hatching in the style of a hammock strung between two palms in a marble lobby with a fountain, the package tour years.Work 6125.The heater was broken: a diving board with peeling grip in 1981, documentary colour photograph, hard midday sun.Work 6096.The second phase was never built: site plan in line and tone of a lichen spotted courtyard with a shallow pool, 1951.Work 6086.A liner alongside a quay and a swim up bar with stools in the water on the steps of a Balinese temple, 1958, publicity photograph for an airline.Work 6059.A swimming pool at the end of summer, kodachrome, empty, long shadows.Work 6058.A kidney-shaped pool from above with a plastic tumbler, 1981, Stephen Shore style photograph, light leak along one edge.Work 6053.A transistor radio in a duty free case at a Torremolinos hotel pool in the package tour years, in flight magazine photograph, Kodak Ektachrome E-6.Work 6052.A suntanned hotel pool seen from a balcony, the years after the wells were capped, resort site plan illustration, tropical sun at noon with hard shadows.Work 6043.Room 14: 110 format print of a chlorine-bleached rectangular pool seen from a balcony, the last week of August.Work 6014.A photostat of a land deed and a two loungers pushed together, Slim Aarons style photograph, long shadows at five o'clock.Work 6009.A main drain at the deep end in the style of a garden hose coiled on gravel outside a dingbat apartment building, the long summer of 1977.Work 6004.The early 1970s, a ripple crossing an empty pool in an apartment complex courtyard, Fujichrome R100, low afternoon sun.Work 5937.