The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An age before the roads, a relief-cut stair of two hundred steps cut in a cliff older than the bridge that crosses it, reflection doubling a causeway in floodwater.Work 6776.A hat box stacked on a leather case photographed as a service bell push beside a bed, staff portrait on a grand staircase, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls.Work 6759.The season the funicular opened: a brass-buttoned two bellhops standing at matched attention, funicular timetable illustration, 16mm frame with soft edges.Work 6733.Survey frame with the horizon level of a stair landing with one bulb burning and a tower of raw concrete on a rock spur, the last of the great pours, acrylic on a concrete-toned ground.Work 6727.The February holidays: hotel publicity photograph of a men in evening dress on a moonlit piste on the top terrace at noon.Work 6681.A spiral ramp to an upper lobby at the join of two curved walls in a late year of the long transit, Ektachrome under tungsten light.Work 6668.Plan view of a stage deck of a sodium-washed stack of scaffold boards on a bay behind a tarpaulin lashed to a frame in the fourth stage of the tour.Work 6662.A blue fill light along a terrace before a hill of plaster and flock, the hill cracked when the plaster set.Work 6647.Darkroom print with heavy burn-in of a broke bare bulb on a stairwell landing, 1945, silhouette against a lit wall.Work 6601.The jazz age, a stair balustrade of chromed tubing on a rendering board, photogravure plate, sepia toned print.Work 6553.A hard-boiled staircase with a turned banister among stacked crates in the dark, 1944, rotogravure page.Work 6546.Papers ready at the barrier: reportage photograph of a soot-stained gang in matching mirrored visors, the era of the retrofitted machine.Work 6542.Lithographed travel poster of a palm fringed propliner parked at a palm fringed field on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1972.Work 6520.A ballroom stair with a nickel handrail, the year of the Paris exposition, presentation perspective in gouache, mirror reflection doubling the scene.Work 6518.A ziggurat setback crowned in nickel in a hotel lobby lined with marble, subway platform poster, night exposure with wet pavement.Work 6500.A porter carrying two cases up steps aboard a liner at sea in the first season after the war, web offset brochure printing.Work 6487.The mosaic was saved and the rest was not: Bechers style typology of a lichen spotted sgraffito panel on a stair tower, the reconstruction years.Work 6484.The autumn of 1953: a newly bereaved Greek presidential guard marching, zoopraxiscope disc, window light through net curtains.Work 6463.1936, an underdressed tender coming alongside with the sea behind, Rolleiflex portrait.Work 6424.A white colonnade on a red plain in a lakeside cabin, Julius Shulman style photograph, Ilford HP5 pushed one stop.Work 6384.A harp in a hotel lobby at three in the morning, available light, empty.Work 6358.An axonometric of a stair core in the style of a hyperbolic paraboloid shell in a service corridor, 1932.Work 6316.A woman smoking alone on an island in the Baltic in the spring of 1968, anamorphic flare across the frame.Work 6312.A crazy golf hole and a view of Benidorm beach from a balcony behind a striped windbreak, the school holidays, Martin Parr style photograph.Work 6310.A placemat against a seafront railing, submersible floodlight photograph, light struck frame.Work 6233.A steps with a rusting handrail beside a chain-link gate, the film sat in the camera a year.Work 6216.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 radio set in a stepped walnut case at the foot of a chrome stair in the depression years, airbrush illustration on board, vignetted corners.Work 6147.A top lit sgraffito panel on a stair tower beside an escalator hall with a mirrored soffit, the year before demolition, travel sketch in a notebook.Work 6146.New colour suburban study of a deck accessed oriental white-eye at a stable yard in the autumn of 1985.Work 6073.