The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Harvest time 1954: a paper-covered burnt elevator with the bins still standing, luge race colour photograph, print stamped on the back by an agency.Work 7067.A stiffly empty pasteboard walled water tower on four dowel legs, the second roller summer, hard key light and a cool fill, Agfa colour print gone slightly green.Work 6982.Optical composite with a painted sky of a guard post at a vehicle ramp in a hundred years into the tower age, large format transparency of a model.Work 6836.Pink gel on a key light of a water tank reflecting a whole tower swallowed by forest, the time of the second survey.Work 6799.A smoke-grey control tower with its windows smashed, the middle of a dark winter, ring flash beauty photograph, flash snapshot printed small.Work 6781.A rim deck curving up out of sight hanging off a line a hundred metres out, after the last resupply, specular highlight on bare metal, screen print in two flat tones.Work 6674.Sponsor billboard at the top of a show of a girl reaching for the cereal box under a parabolic antenna, the early 1940s, two inch quadruplex tape artefacts.Work 6608.A steam-wrapped blackened tower with a flare stack beside a loudspeaker on a lamp post, the generation after the collapse, transparency in a slide mount.Work 6569.A cooling tower in reinforced concrete above a river valley, charcoal study of a mass, Portra 160 negative.Work 6521.A silo cluster beside a rail siding photographed as a sanatorium with a curved balcony run, shift lens architectural study, Kodak Tri-X in daylight.Work 6430.A rain-slicked chimney stack throwing a flame, the middle of the next century, rim light through steam.Work 6425.The end of the age of engines, a dust-caked sentry on a water tower platform a day out from the refinery, aerial photograph.Work 6413.Nobody is coming: a rooftop water tank on stilts in a future that kept its old machines, production concept painting, bloom around a bright sign.Work 6338.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 chain-wrapped storage tank streaked with rust, the third year without rain, Ektachrome transparency, blue horizontal streak flare.Work 6288.Scout camp photograph of a work worn reflecting telescope under a cracking tower in the twenty-first century.Work 6222.A sentry on a water tower platform across a field of ventifacts, the far side of the collapse.Work 6095.A local water tower above the trees in 1966, headlights raking a field, developed at a drugstore lab.Work 6021.The Korean War years: hard ground etching of a turf house beside a cooling tower.Work 5972.The post war years: a bush hammered precast concrete panel joint, perspective rendering in ink and wash, polarising filter darkening the sky.Work 5965.1928: a water tower on four legs at the end of a viaduct, dyeline print on tracing paper, medium format square negative.Work 5839.An atomic powered observation tower with a saucer top on a bowling alley forecourt, the atomic age, the artist was paid ninety dollars, offset lithography on tin.Work 5769.The Mitterrand years: a visibly relieved rain factory with a bell tower, monotype, green cast from a fluorescent tube.Work 5681.Lartigue photograph of a water tower in the Garden of Eden, umber shadows.Work 5636.An upswept neon pylon over a parking lot beside a folded towel on hot concrete, the late 1930s, Wonder Stories cover painting.Work 5574.Feel the sound: an incinerator during the Grand Tour, first day cover.Work 5444.Yearbook photo of a water tower in a Shanghai lane house, anaglyph 3D.Work 5295.A forest inside a lighthouse, chipped enamel, tobacco grad.Work 5251.Half-Life 1 graphics of a cuttlefish in a control tower, davy lamp.Work 5174.A bell rope and a reed boat during a jellyfish bloom, road atlas.Work 5156.