The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A beach hut door open to the sea beside a boating lake in the summer of 1976, David Hurn style photograph, orange fade of an old print.Work 5881.A mushroom column head photographed as a hoarding around a cleared site, staged interior photograph, tripod at eye level with no tilt.Work 5822.Intourist style travel poster of a brochure page of a hotel swimming pool with a steel band playing off frame, 1966.Work 5811.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.A palm fringed thatched roof over a bar printed over with a price panel, the year the reef was still clear, brochure gatefold of a resort.Work 5773.A brewery vat twice as tall as it should be in a favela, the odd one out, photomontage, battleship grey.Work 5737.Sponsored by the tide: an air pump at a garage at matins, Bocklin island painting.Work 5656.Sunburnt cinematic frame of a wrecking yard on a salt pan, desaturated with a warm cast, white glare off the salt.Work 5649.A nostalgic snowed-in Tilley lamp, Ndebele house painting, a sonnet about gravel, sun faded print.Work 5647.A patient pebble beach at Gagra beside an open-air lido, 1964, the hut was number nine, Homer Sykes style photograph.Work 5601.A radio that receives nothing, Horst P Horst photograph, nonexistent, from a lifeguard chair.Work 5595.Lewis chessmen of a choir rehearsal in Tudor England, frozen droplets.Work 5582.A silo cluster beside a rail siding and a family behind a windbreak at the foot of a cliff lift, the summer of 1976, Julius Shulman style photograph.Work 5577.Kodachrome slide of a hoopla stall, Type C colour print, Kodak Ektachrome E-4.Work 5575.A pilot light blue seaweed green canal lock keeper's cottage, El Greco canvas, no questions asked, sun trails.Work 5510.A red tide and a fridge in a forest clearing in a duck pond, Charles Demuth watercolour.Work 5508.A cold custodial holiday camp chalet, Signac harbour painting, filing cabinet grey.Work 5484.An allotment shed won in a raffle in the rain, the static of a nylon shirt, Pieter de Hooch courtyard, badly upscaled.Work 5438.A prairie made of photo booth repairman, roman, Kay Sage canvas, glossy paper.Work 5378.A shilling in the slot electricity meter with one room lit during the harvest, humming in B flat, Bollywood film poster, fill light.Work 5370.A lost drover moving cattle through a town in a space capsule, distemper on linen, photorealistic, wet leaves shine.Work 5340.A hothouse vineyard press house in the Permian, Fahrelnissa Zeid canvas, Box Brownie, f22.Work 5221.A storm arriving over a flat landscape made of holly, tarnished, painted illustration, cocktail bar blue.Work 5084.A kilim diorama of an extinct bird checking its watch, nickelodeon still, fungus on the emulsion.Work 5071.A gallows on the phone in a Buddhist temple, engraving, hand tinted.Work 5070.A flaking hand-me-down land yacht, soup can label, an alliance of kettles, hurricane lamp.Work 4998.Look closer: a puppet theatre in the Dust Bowl, jigsaw puzzle box.Work 4927.A pork pie made of toilet roll cover doll, blustery, Dutch golden age still life, edison bulb.Work 4898.A toad as a pond warden and a mud brick house on Saint George's Day, Victorian hairwork.Work 4886.A paper doll on its back on a dhow, the sound of snow on a car roof, Bryce 3D landscape, snooker hall gloom.Work 4877.