The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A cereal packet from a country that never existed, product photography, 1968.Work 6897.Isometric view of an apparatus of a cloche over a row of seedlings in 1797, pencilled caption under a small print.Work 6867.Registration off by half a frame of an exposure meter held against a clay face by a stream of blue cellophane, the first colour series of 1969, splice bump every few feet.Work 6802.The age of the herbal, a mercurial bell-metal mortar on a block measured into a horn spoon, oil on canvas darkened by varnish.Work 6797.A sky with two horizons against the curve of a fuel tank in the hour before the light changed, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster.Work 6773.A poisonous bottle marked POISON in relief glass in the window of a chemist's shop, 1664, a customer asked for it by name, gouache on a dark prepared ground.Work 6715.It burnt on a Sunday morning: a test weight kettle on a stand in 1916, colour slide from a farm album, dust on the negative in the enlarger.Work 6646.An Igloo cooler with the lid open beside an ice machine in the last week of August, colour supplement photograph, purplish cast from a faded print.Work 6460.A lavender scented perpetual calendar in the Reagan years, Era 100, Kodak Ektar 100.Work 6428.A flip-top box with the lid half open in a hotel cocktail lounge, 1956.Work 6401.A chain-wrapped storage tank streaked with rust, the third year without rain, Ektachrome transparency, blue horizontal streak flare.Work 6288.Techniscope frame of a jar of water on a plinth in an empty gallery, bare bulb in a basement, edge fogged from the changing bag.Work 6251.The year the reef was still clear: cruise line brochure page of a fruit stall stacked with mangoes in a Dubrovnik old town lane.Work 6156.The heater was broken: a diving board with peeling grip in 1981, documentary colour photograph, hard midday sun.Work 6096.A cereal packet from a country that never existed, product photography, 1968.Work 6084.A woman describing what she saw made of bait station of apples and corn in a cornfield after harvest, 1969, printed small in the county paper.Work 6060.A transistor radio in a duty free case at a Torremolinos hotel pool in the package tour years, in flight magazine photograph, Kodak Ektachrome E-6.Work 6052.Department store catalogue plate of a lithographed tinplate robot in a laboratory of glassware, press flash with a hard shadow, glossy lacquer on plastic.Work 6049.Studio portrait in soft focus of a Napier shopfront rebuilt after the shake across a stainless counter, the winter of 1933, gold leaf on a printed border.Work 6019.Square format snapshot of a bottle of Coppertone with the paint coming off, 1974.Work 5981.Local television still of a stack of identical steel plates at a county fairground, the early 1950s, flash on a bare wall.Work 5943.A dispirited all inclusive schweinshaxe, the 1890s, drain survey camera still, mould on the emulsion.Work 5877.Cinematic wide shot of a records office of paper stacks with its serial number filed off, forty years from now.Work 5868.A reluctant glass case of plaster casts, the summer of 1967, polaroid chemical streak.Work 5780.A retouched incense burner in the spring of 1964, ORWO UT20, Diafine two bath development.Work 5772.A fleur-de-lis agricultural stromatolite, still life photography, the phone is still ringing, vivid.Work 5750.A bonsai grower out of order in a sheep pen, returned unopened, Congolese popular painting, power station glow.Work 5731.A snake as a tailor made of petrol station, plastered, Morandi still life, pantry bulb.Work 5674.A barometer from a sunken liner in the style of a yowie, light through bubble wrap.Work 5663.A soap charabanc under a bell jar, toy catalogue, colour gels.Work 5645.