The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An axle box with a brass cover and a horizon of ochre dust behind a train, matched uniform group in a row, photochrom plate in flat inks.Work 7110.A dark with pitch geared logging locomotive on a trestle, the turn of the century, saw filing instruction figure, scraperboard white line work.Work 7024.Four-ink railway poster of a mushroom house running into ochre haze, the age of the loaded animal.Work 6955.A goods guard writing up his journal at a wayside goods yard, the winter of 1963.Work 6951.A jumpy dune flank swept smooth again beside a truck driver hauling bootleg whiskey, the last trains of the old trade, casein on board cover art.Work 6947.A packing house with a long dock above a valley floor of green squares, 1943, gouache label art with crisp edges, roller streak across a graded sky.Work 6933.Lens flare kept as composition of a sheet-numbered figure whose train is held out by hands, well into the age of the grown limb, tungsten stock in cold dawn air.Work 6895.Land settlement brochure photograph of a speeder on the branch line, frame edge with sprocket marks, red filter darkening the sky to black.Work 6857.Tilted frame with a raked horizon of a goods wagon halted at a signal and a tunnel market in a widened chamber, late in the era of the sealed levels, fluorescent ink over a process print.Work 6821.The second slab was never opened: a theodolite on a tripod facing a monolith in the year the railway was added, streets left white between ruled blocks, polarised sky over pale concrete.Work 6780.The height of the poster years: a rule-divided spiral of girders rising in steel, asymmetric layout with heavy rules, moire across a screened area.Work 6779.A fitted freight running at speed through a smoke-filled shed, rubber-stamped date on the back, scratched and dusty negative scan, four-colour litho on poster paper.Work 6768.A Russian matryoshka painter with the far end of the street half height, the late Victorian years, military installation record photograph, pulp board warped at a corner.Work 6687.A smoke-hazed turn of logs coming in on the mainline beside a high climber topping a spar tree, 1918, fire lookout log illustration.Work 6677.Documentary frame from a hull camera of a sealed-off dust storm covering a whole region on a work face with a foot restraint in the second station generation.Work 6671.An inspection pit a foot deep into a culvert of brick under a line, the years of three engines.Work 6635.Scale model publicity photograph of a gold vein running through quartz, Kentmere 100, split grade print.Work 6526.The early 1960s, a blustery ghost train front holding a bucket and spade, holiday camp brochure page.Work 6499.Long lens shot through heat haze of a wrecking yard on a salt pan trailing a plume of dust, the years after the wells were capped.Work 6456.A checkpoint of stacked wrecks under a bone-white sky, the last stretch of the old century.Work 6377.A glass bricked bevelled Hawke's Bay street of low stepped parapets, the depression years, liner company brochure illustration, grain from a fast plate.Work 6354.A convoy strung out across a pan in the shade of a tanker trailer in the age of the welded machine, telephoto compression of a convoy.Work 6348.A diesel-smoked front car of the Scenic Railway at Dreamland in 1957, heavy grain in the shadows, deep contrast.Work 6295.A deck accessed dodgem with the pole sparking at the Newcastle Hoppings, the year before demolition, documentary photograph.Work 6154.Black and white architectural study of a ribbed cylindrical tower of a press centre under a concrete canopy in the reconstruction years.Work 6123.A lithographed monorail gliding over a plaza in the early 1940s, Agfacolor stock, black background with a rim light.Work 6107.A semi detached instant camera under an overpass with no road left, Christmas 1939, Mass Observation photograph.Work 6075.A lino floored milanesa, the late 1870s, Theatrum mundi mechanical theatre, tram lines down the frame.Work 6071.A thin shell concrete roof and a subway station with a vaulted hall under a bridge deck, the reconstruction years, measured elevation in ink.Work 6024.An amateur car park ramp spiralling down beside a beton brut wall with shuttering lines, 1968, trail camera exposure.Work 5945.