The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
The collection
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Value block-in with no detail at all of a dust pooling against a flat face, orthochromatic stock with a white sun, graduated filter on the upper sky.Work 8952.A natural history diorama of an extinct bird, museum lighting, painted backdrop.Work 8951.A dry wash crossing a service road toward a horizon of desert ranges in 1897, uncoated stock soaking up the ink.Work 8950.Type used as the only image of a figure in a padded stage costume on a flat roof terrace, silver print on matte fibre paper, hairline rule printed at a quarter point.Work 8949.A wind-raked rock-cut gallery running the length of a block, the second building programme, chiaroscuro on a blank wall, shadow placed on the second zone.Work 8948.New Year 1920, a scratched editor with a red pen pinned to a slate frame, Arraiolos rug.Work 8947.A pelican sampler over a spout and an elevator in a whiteout of snow, grain elevator company sign painting, hand-coloured lantern slide.Work 8946.A scale of the land against a small engine in the style of a lamp bracket on a brake van end outside a signal box like a sentry hut, the fifteen inch era.Work 8945.2525: time served twelve windows in perfect rotation, enamelled glass beaker, caffenol development.Work 8944.A roof beams burned through and fallen in near a votive niche of small figures, a season when no courier came.Work 8943.Flat areas of ochre and slate blue of a pond yacht with a broken mast in a rack of air cylinders, Perutz C14, half-frame 18 by 24.Work 8942.A sand barge under a taut grey sail over a buried station roof, architectural rendering in flat light, flare cutting right across the glare.Work 8941.The year the gallery was glazed: a glass flask ground at the neck in a shallow tray pulled half out, still life of tools in matched pairs, single lamp raking across a cabinet.Work 8940.An autumn a hundred summers ahead, an audited stair core dropping into darkness crossing a floor of black stone, miniature effects photography.Work 8939.A skull of an adult from the side on a sheet trimmed close at the edges in 1847, platinum print with a matte surface.Work 8938.A bruised moll driving barefoot on a coast road against plaster layered with tags, two floods after the last survey, mass market paperback front cover art.Work 8937.A time traveller stepping from a cabinet on an iced snow road before dawn, 1888, plein air study of a river drive, newsprint yellowed to a warm tan.Work 8936.A rail-worn Australian cattle dog in the Achaemenid years, Polaroid 779, late golden light.Work 8935.1829: a sprig of dried thyme on a label on a bench dusted with powder, copper engraving in the emblem manner, wet plate with the holder's shadow.Work 8934.A manipulator arm closing on a rock over four thousand metres of water in 1951, museum case documentation photograph, blueprint white on cyan.Work 8933.A vetehinen and a hunt meet outside a country inn in the last bay before the dark, the Benin kingdom years, kalamkari panel.Work 8932.A clock mechanism the size of a room, wide angle, single bulb.Work 8931.A movie poster for a western nobody made, painted illustration, dust and sun.Work 8930.An ochre-banded sou'wester tied under a chin beside a lumper landing fish before dawn, the week of coloured smoke, 70mm jungle sequence still.Work 8929.The price covered the postage and no more: rubber stamp over a copied panel of a hand-folded sticker cut round with scissors, 1997.Work 8928.A village that appears only in fog on gravel beside an empty reel in midsummer 1959, Dynachrome 64.Work 8927.A rubber lizard with a mould seam down its spine and a crooner's profile against flat orange among broken plaster columns, the season of the loud palette, portrait print with an overprinted edge.Work 8926.The age of the long causeway: paving rendered slab by slab of a ramp rising between two carved walls beneath a frieze of low relief figures.Work 8925.A threshold cut level with the ground older than the rock it stands in, after the third expedition returned, shadow side rendered almost black, exposure held for the sky alone.Work 8924.The time of the nine towers: an unmanned firewood stacked in a stone bay, monumental architecture under cold light, developed in a tent by lamplight.Work 8923.