The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A shadow of a diving board under a fibreglass patio cover, travel agency photograph, Newton rings from a glass mount.Work 6544.Joel Meyerowitz style photograph of a still empty motel pool at dusk, the long summer of 1977, glare off the water.Work 6501.A guitar trio beside a pool in an upper deck lounge, the hotel opened two seasons late.Work 6494.A swimming gala at a lido photographed as an empty beach in the rain, saucy seaside postcard, tracking lines at the bottom.Work 6471.A courtyard with a shallow pool in a panel housing district, the tenants were moved out in stages.Work 6405.A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples.Work 6395.A bone-white pool ladder half in shadow behind a sliding glass door, the long summer of 1977, square format snapshot.Work 6385.Oblique aerial photograph of a mosaic panel on a gable wall in a Chandigarh forecourt, 1928, Ektachrome 64 transparency.Work 6380.A quiet main drain at the deep end beside a flooded equipment pad, 1972, projected colour slide.Work 6346.A swimming pool with a tiled sunray floor and a guide with a numbered paddle at an airport viewing terrace, 1930, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement.Work 6345.Pencil study on trace of a colonnade of tapering arches beside a reflecting pool, stopped down to f22 throughout, infrared rendering foliage white.Work 6342.The year the reef was still clear, a passenger stepping onto the tarmac in sunglasses in a Samarkand tiled courtyard, super eight home movie film, tropical sun at noon with hard shadows.Work 6306.An anodised white colonnade on a red plain inside a glazed atrium, 1928, photograph of an architectural model.Work 6304.A suntanned gondola under a stone bridge at the edge of a turquoise lagoon, the early 1970s, the pool was built the year after, travel trade advertisement.Work 6287.An open air rum drink with fruit on a stick with a paper parasol in the glass, the first jumbo season, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement.Work 6280.An aproned dog at the edge of the water beside a pool ladder, the last week of August, piece to camera by a spokesman.Work 6278.A blue pool vacuum hose on a night express, 1927, holiday album photograph, rotogravure printing.Work 6269.An overexposed concrete balcony above the sand, the late 1960s, yard light at night.Work 6263.A wax block melting slowly in a Venice Biennale pavilion, the edition ran to five hundred.Work 6243.A wall of trophies in a panelled den in the style of a leaf floating in the deep end in a fenced backyard, the Eisenhower years.Work 6230.A detail section through a parapet made of departure hall with a clerestory in a courtyard between slabs, the tail end of the century, aerial oblique from a light aircraft.Work 6228.A sand-covered corner of the Jubilee Pool at Penzance under a blue umbrella, 1976, holiday camp brochure page.Work 6226.A reflection of a palm in the water and a pool party nobody came to beside an ice machine, the summer of 1976, Ed Ruscha style photograph.Work 6193.Two days before we left: a pool cover half rolled back in the long summer of 1977, faded holiday snapshot, chromatic fringing on the coping.Work 6164.The long summer of 1977, an inflatable ring floating alone under a floodlight, raking light across the deck, fingerprint on the emulsion.Work 6158.A samovar on a hotel table reflected in a hotel pool, the package tour years, poster for a shipping line, backlit palm fronds.Work 6128.A sectional elevation with hatching in the style of a hammock strung between two palms in a marble lobby with a fountain, the package tour years.Work 6125.The heater was broken: a diving board with peeling grip in 1981, documentary colour photograph, hard midday sun.Work 6096.The second phase was never built: site plan in line and tone of a lichen spotted courtyard with a shallow pool, 1951.Work 6086.A liner alongside a quay and a swim up bar with stools in the water on the steps of a Balinese temple, 1958, publicity photograph for an airline.Work 6059.