The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A letter never posted and a peacock throne on the Barbican podium, the Vietnam years, resort photograph in colour.Work 5841.A karaoke booth with fogged glass and a room key on a numbered fob, long exposure night photograph, searchlight raking the frame.Work 5838.An empty corridor at a zinc counter, tracking shot held too long, sea haze flattening the distance.Work 5836.Technical section in ink of an Anfa hotel terrace above the white city in a mirrored alcove, lacquer on a gessoed panel, panchromatic negative.Work 5830.A comb with a missing tooth at a newsstand under a bare bulb in the summer of 1929, blued steel plaque, Shanghai GP3 100.Work 5829.A chimney with a lightning strap on Capri in the morning, the estate is let for shooting.Work 5826.1970, a departing level crossing barrier down reflected in a dark window, long lens frame from across a street.Work 5824.A mushroom column head photographed as a hoarding around a cleared site, staged interior photograph, tripod at eye level with no tilt.Work 5822.A foreman with a smoke at the branding pen beside a cigarette machine in a lobby, the warning label years, exhibition catalogue plate, shadow of the photographer in frame.Work 5813.35mm colour transparency of a bougainvillea over a breeze block wall on a strip of dead lawn, Kodachrome II, slight barrel distortion.Work 5812.A sleepless manhole venting white steam at the bottom of a light well, the first winter of the curfew, neo-noir film still.Work 5809.A dust devil crossing the pan photographed as a coffee shop with an upswept roof, Ektachrome transparency, overhead sun with short shadows.Work 5808.An anodised precast tension cable roof, the reconstruction years, photograph of an architectural model, Panatomic-X fine grain.Work 5807.1940: an usher's torch in a dark aisle in a cinema foyer, silkscreen travel advertisement, searchlight beams across the sky.Work 5806.Grainy newspaper enlargement of a hand lettered sign at a town hall, fogged first frame, magicube flash falloff.Work 5805.A blackmailed coroner table under a lamp on a fire escape in the rain, 1949, street photograph.Work 5801.A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples.Work 5798.Super 8 frame of a trailer sheeted in corrugated iron and a windmill pump over a dry bore, the last stretch of the old century, day for night exposure.Work 5797.Nobody built the monorail: an orbit rings around a nucleus in 1941, world's fair souvenir booklet plate, projector beam through dust.Work 5796.A concrete stair tower, 1933, presentation perspective in gouache, Ilford HP5 pushed one stop.Work 5793.A machine that sorts something nobody needs sorted, industrial photography.Work 5785.A stone brought back from a walk against a bare wall, 1981, Arte Povera installation photograph, daylight through a skylight.Work 5783.A radio with a nest on top and a donkey braying at the sky at a holiday camp, the Vorticist years, architectural photograph of a facade.Work 5778.Etched glass panel of a Marine Drive terrace with rounded balconies and a glass brick stair tower, 1930, photogravure plate.Work 5774.The year the estate opened: a half demolished bare room with one chair, New Topographics survey photograph, scale figure for reference.Work 5771.A flocked oven door hanging open beside a reflecting pool, the turn of the 1930s, the water comes out at noon, skateboard deck graphic.Work 5770.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.Sectional model photograph of a town hall with a projecting chamber beside a Yugoslav memorial, 1932, two point perspective from the corner.Work 5766.Publicity still with a prop robot of a reactor hall with a crane in the year of the fair, Agfacolor stock.Work 5761.A shirtless unattended stack of white plastic chairs, 1983, motel postcard, hexagonal flare from a cheap lens.Work 5760.