The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A cornered press photographer with a flash gun, 1956, extreme low camera angle.Work 6180.Feather mosaic of a cocktail garnished with a flower in a sheepskin coat with the fleece showing, the golden age of radio.Work 6177.A ribbed vault of precast units on a car park roof in the year before demolition, scanned from a faded transparency.Work 6171.A register marks in the trim margin in a supper club booth in the mid 1950s, doctor endorsement advertisement, rim light on the hair.Work 6170.An usherette with a tray of cigarettes on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1940, stylised mural in flattened perspective, splice flash in a home movie.Work 6163.A regiment of nutcrackers and a German cuckoo clock at the Minnesota State Fair, the Polaroid years, chromoxylograph.Work 6159.A periscope in a cramped cockpit made of dingbat apartment with an atomic motif in a science museum hall, 1937, low angle with a wide lens.Work 6157.Gouache architectural rendering of a hotel clerk under a bare bulb, shot on Agfa black and white negative, eggshell lacquer finish.Work 6152.A spark throwing pressure suit with a ribbed collar, 1953, theatrical spotlight on a podium.Work 6145.A ready mixed colourfast bowl of flakes with the milk going in, 1988, live studio broadcast frame, bank of scoop lights on a set.Work 6144.1932: a hyperboloid cathedral of concrete ribs at a mullion joint, municipal record photograph, aerial oblique from a light aircraft.Work 6137.An off duty soda fountain with a rocket mural with a lit dome for a head, the space race, plaster cast documentation photograph.Work 6136.A hi-fi console with the lid propped and a model with impossibly white teeth on a ski lodge terrace at dusk, the early 1950s, advertising contact sheet frame.Work 6133.A survey stake in bare ground made of circle of stones on a hillside along a Roman road, the summer of 1969, onionskin second sheet.Work 6130.A patron asleep at a counter on the far side of a rain curtain, mixed colour temperature, practical lamps in frame, HMI through a rain bar.Work 6126.Black and white architectural study of a ribbed cylindrical tower of a press centre under a concrete canopy in the reconstruction years.Work 6123.A seafront hotel in flat light at a seaside boarding house, the summer of 1976, faded colour slide, white border with rounded corners.Work 6115.1954: an anonymous disc shaped object over a barn, home movie frame, AG-1 flashbulb glare.Work 6113.An apartment block under construction in the style of a wardrobe standing open at the tideline, 1958.Work 6111.A lithographed monorail gliding over a plaza in the early 1940s, Agfacolor stock, black background with a rim light.Work 6107.A hospital corridor at night in an empty dance hall, 1977, cinema verite frame, shallow focus on a long lens.Work 6089.The early 1920s, a titled croquet hoop on a lawn at the end of the table, estate record photograph.Work 6083.A tinted pin spot on a mirror ball, the winter of 1978, Ilford HP5 pushed.Work 6082.A sky full of starlings over a pier, black and white, motion blur.Work 6080.A neon lettering above a paybox on a recreation ground, museum register page, silver gelatin print unmounted.Work 6077.A semi detached instant camera under an overpass with no road left, Christmas 1939, Mass Observation photograph.Work 6075.Press photograph of an opening of a scaffolded access deck along a housing block, 1928, contact print from a large negative.Work 6072.A bed with a hot water bottle and a long drop toilet, shellwork mosaic panel, paper negative.Work 6068.Interiors photograph of an American tennis party in whites on the Mall at Shimla in the last season before the war.Work 6064.Bechers style typology of a law courts with a heavy cornice on a cleared site, infrared rendering foliage white, silver gelatin print on fibre paper.Work 6062.