The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Flat spot colour printing of a robot handing over a ray gun and a starburst sign over a car wash, 1939, cathode ray glow on a face.Work 5917.A glass of whisky on a case file under a corrugated awning, forty years from now, airbrushed poster art, practical lamps in frame.Work 5916.An official behind a glass screen and a factory gate at shift change, linocut print, deep focus stopped down.Work 5915.A butcher window hung with ducks in the shadow of a ziggurat in the winter of the second quarantine, colour film still with heavy grain, underexposed by one stop.Work 5914.A space frame roof over a hall and an airport terminal with a curved shell, diazo print, low winter sun raking a facade.Work 5912.A whitewashed travel agent's window full of posters in a courtyard with a fountain, the Concorde years, photographed in another country, timetable cover illustration.Work 5911.A foam spread across a pane of glass and a station break slide with the call letters in a sound stage with the doors shut, the late 1960s, super laid over a still.Work 5909.A world's fair pavilion with a pylon, the late 1940s, Populuxe brochure illustration, 35mm with a slight grain.Work 5908.A barber leaning in his own doorway at a country club bar, ask the man who smokes them.Work 5907.A pulp magazine cover with a giant machine in a reactor hall in 1937, newspaper strip panel, floodlit marquee at night.Work 5904.A radio mast guyed with cable inside a rolling wall of dust, a hundred summers from now.Work 5900.Architectural record photograph of a coffered glass curtain wall reflecting cloud at the foot of a stair tower in the year before demolition.Work 5899.The Afrobeat years, a hawk-moth feeding from a honeysuckle in a shopfront of black Vitrolite, Adox KB17, grid spot on the product.Work 5890.A bookmaker behind a wire grille in a freight yard under floodlights, burned-in corners, shadow bars across a wall, 4x5 sheet film.Work 5889.A shepherd counting sheep through a gap in the style of a Vietnamese phin filter on a gravel sweep, the turn of the 1940s.Work 5888.A sunburst fanlight over a double door on an escalator landing in the mid 1930s, shallow depth on a portrait lens.Work 5887.A terrazzo floor with a compass rose beside a bronze lift door, theatre programme cover, gouache on grey board.Work 5885.Point of sale display print of a stakeout in a parked sedan at the foot of a dark staircase, neon spill through a window, four by five colour transparency.Work 5882.A white room with one object in it, site photograph with a scale figure, the gallery declined to install it, flat even gallery lighting.Work 5880.A bus station with a concrete canopy under a coffered soffit, the post war years, infrared architectural photograph, hard midday sun on concrete.Work 5876.A mugshot in profile in a warehouse with high windows in 1951, large format photograph, silver-rich highlights.Work 5870.Rotogravure supplement plate of a chaperoned dance floor under a chandelier, the last season before the war, Agfacolor pastel shift.Work 5869.Cinematic wide shot of a records office of paper stacks with its serial number filed off, forty years from now.Work 5868.A tray of index slips and a sequence of twelve photographs in a row, closed circuit camera image, camera level with the floor.Work 5867.A desert proving ground with a bunker on a launch pad at dawn, the pavilion lasted eighteen months.Work 5864.1921: an Ocean City floating ring in a Chandigarh forecourt, engraved invitation, telephoto across a paddock.Work 5860.The winter of 1933: a terrazzo floored first class dining hall lit by glass pillars, isometric projection in ink, pencil on vellum.Work 5859.The second take was the one they used: an end lockup with a logo panel in 1979, in store demonstration segment, herringbone interference pattern.Work 5858.A palm shadow across the stucco at a Holiday Inn pool, 1939, technical cutaway illustration, cyan and yellow dye fade.Work 5854.An overcast boarding house window waiting for the rain to stop, the summer of 1976, Italian beach club poster.Work 5853.