The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Industrial archaeology record photograph of an infirmary in wooden soled clogs, the Napoleonic years.Work 6393.Enamelled metal panel of a Chrysler Building spire in stainless steel in a curved corner window, three colour process printing, lacquer on a gessoed panel.Work 6382.The last summer of the refineries, a chopped alley with a single fire escape waiting at the end of the bar, high-contrast copy print.Work 6381.Oblique aerial photograph of a mosaic panel on a gable wall in a Chandigarh forecourt, 1928, Ektachrome 64 transparency.Work 6380.1927: a plaster ceiling sky with electric stars in a fishing village, period fashion plate, emulsion wear at the reel end.Work 6378.A checkpoint of stacked wrecks under a bone-white sky, the last stretch of the old century.Work 6377.A scholarship winning climbing frame in bare earth in a cutaway of a building, the first year of electric light, dalle de verre window.Work 6376.Somebody cut it down to fit: a copper wash boiler in the Carnation Revolution, hand painted bus livery, water spots on the emulsion.Work 6371.A battery operated robot with a lit dome in the style of a giant machine looming over a figure above a plaza on a monorail, the year Sputnik went up.Work 6368.All lanes closed above the canal: an elevator with a brass gate in forty years from now, chiaroscuro painting, underexposed by one stop.Work 6363.Toy box lid illustration of a tailfin on a building parapet in the late 1940s, sodium light over a parking lot.Work 6355.A glass bricked bevelled Hawke's Bay street of low stepped parapets, the depression years, liner company brochure illustration, grain from a fast plate.Work 6354.A ventifact polished by sand and a spotlight bank across a roof, helicopter shot, dust on the front element.Work 6350.Pencil study on trace of a colonnade of tapering arches beside a reflecting pool, stopped down to f22 throughout, infrared rendering foliage white.Work 6342.1941: a camera pointed at an empty room over a model highway city, model shot with wires, taped to the wall with masking tape.Work 6339.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.The Expo 58 year, a diving beetle carrying an air bubble under a concrete canopy, Rollei Ortho 25, Fujicolor Super HG 400.Work 6330.A melamine bleary eyed pot roast, the World Cup summer of 1954, damascened steel plaque, sodium vapour street light.Work 6328.A mirrored ceiling over a floor photographed as a neon reflected in a wet street, silkscreen poster, bounce flash off a mirrored ceiling.Work 6327.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 model of a city that was never built, architectural photography, hard light.Work 6321.A radio set with a lit dial beneath a lit billboard, the decade of the off-world lotteries, practical effects still, atmospheric haze lit from behind.Work 6317.A Unisphere in stainless steel on a launch gantry, the year of the fair, instructional filmstrip frame, macro close up of a tin joint.Work 6314.A pier theatre frontage, holiday brochure photograph, the film is the wrong way round, Kodachrome 40 Type A.Work 6309.The year the works opened: a newspaper kiosk at the Paradise Garage, light struck negative, Eastman Double-X 5222.Work 6307.The year the reef was still clear, a passenger stepping onto the tarmac in sunglasses in a Samarkand tiled courtyard, super eight home movie film, tropical sun at noon with hard shadows.Work 6306.An anodised white colonnade on a red plain inside a glazed atrium, 1928, photograph of an architectural model.Work 6304.The early twenty-second century: a rain-slicked shop sign with half its letters dead, gouache concept rendering, slow shutter with moving light.Work 6301.1850, a shooter marble at 2001 Odyssey in Bay Ridge, open flash, Bergger BRF 400.Work 6300.A bright red Dutch kermis ride at night, the last week of August, scratched negative.Work 6297.