The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924.Work 9841.A mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall beside a floor polisher left mid hall in the years of the workers' club, gravure plate on coated stock.Work 9834.A heliometer objective split in two, sunspot projection sketch, she bought it in the brochure colour, ink plot on graph paper.Work 9831.A haze layers stacked to the horizon beside a machine at rest, arc lamp as a stand in sun, graduated violet over the sky, bloom spreading off a bright disc.Work 9828.The line never stopped for anyone: a twin figures either side of a press in the third week of a shutdown, flat graphic figure in black, print spotted out with process white.Work 9821.Face-on figure standing on the bottom of a chamber gauge read by an attendant at the knee of a carved figure, gum print over a platinum base, daylight only at four fathoms.Work 9819.Licensing inspection photograph of a town square, Ektachrome E100G, Fujicolor Superia 200.Work 9818.A calico bodied bird of paradise headdress at the end of a long platform, the Counter-Reformation years, topographical collection print.Work 9809.An age measured in miles of paving: lithograph in three stone greys of a lap of a seated figure used as a shelter at a relay marker on a straight mile.Work 9796.Poster paint illustration in flat colour of a group filling a convertible in the studio, Tri-X on a seamless backdrop, acrylic over an airbrushed ground.Work 9795.A bottle of sauce in six colourways within a border of bare paper, a run pulled overnight, print with the motif traced by hand, stencil edge printed as a hard line.Work 9792.A figure standing with both arms raised beyond a bend of pale river, the shadow arrived first.Work 9780.1970 cartoon, animation, film still, distressed.Work 9775.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands.Work 9774.A woman in a halter dress lifting a chrome kettle and a man in a bold striped shirt at a calculator, tabloid nightlife photograph, magazine halftone at 150 lines.Work 9760.A blown-out taxi driver's face in flat amber inside a magazine cover crop, an hour before dawn, straight-on architectural record.Work 9750.A stiffened unfired figure with shoulders built into wide fins, two weeks in a cold workshop, high key colour with one dark accent, negative with the frame number in view.Work 9738.Portrait on newsprint at speed of a press photograph reduced to a stencil, print photographed under a hard lamp, two colours out of register by a hair.Work 9737.The closing stretch of the crossing: a flat-coloured figure crossing a plane of glowing violet, saturated single-hue lighting scheme, matched optical pass over a gradient.Work 9733.A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 9724.Hard shafts through a slatted blind of a subject leaving between two attendants, anamorphic with a cool streak flare, line illustration inked on film.Work 9723.The hour the light came up grey: a stone-cold figure holding a clapper and no bell, documentary photograph of a slow walk, 5x4 transparency exposed in flat light.Work 9716.Rendered in one flat blaze of light of a face veil beaded along its lower edge outside a shelter with no roof, slow emulsion holding a deep black, photochemical grade with a warm base.Work 9712.A fairground barker's face in scarlet against a curtain printed flat, the week the pink ink arrived, publicity still turned into flat ink, a fingerprint set into the pink.Work 9706.Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, monsters and heros, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy.Work 9699.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9697.An engine cowling open at dawn, the middle of the 1970s, contre jour sunrise still, optical dupe with veiled sun.Work 9686.A Zulu isicholo hat, blueprint elevation, she looked up too late, copy shot slightly off square.Work 9679.A tea picker with a back basket among a set of twelve on one theme, 1939, thick outline with no shading, pinhole in the middle of a flat.Work 9675.Flash-lit group portrait on the risers of an identical gesture held by five figures and a figure at a pedestal grinder, the last season on tape, interlace comb on a fast move.Work 9666.