The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Feather edges left as bare paper of a swallow gathering mud with the crest raised, 1785.Work 9754.Dystopian 1940s constructivist tower, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9747.Survey photograph made from the air of a sign-lit marker post leaning in loose sand toward a horizon with nothing on it in the years the maps stopped agreeing.Work 9743.A stiffened unfired figure with shoulders built into wide fins, two weeks in a cold workshop, high key colour with one dark accent, negative with the frame number in view.Work 9738.A drive-in screen over parked roofs, the hundredth issue, romance comic panel art in flat ink, paper stretched between two runs.Work 9735.Dystopian 1960s constructivist robot, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9732.A heavy-cropping seed bed marked out with a line at the foot of an escalator to nowhere, an age that repaired nothing new, wood engraving of a nursery house.Work 9719.The hour the light came up grey: a stone-cold figure holding a clapper and no bell, documentary photograph of a slow walk, 5x4 transparency exposed in flat light.Work 9716.Rendered in one flat blaze of light of a face veil beaded along its lower edge outside a shelter with no roof, slow emulsion holding a deep black, photochemical grade with a warm base.Work 9712.A finnesko boots stuffed with sennegrass beneath a bird cliff, pencil caption in a neat hand, collodion print with a high gloss, whole plate glass negative.Work 9710.A revolving stage with a long ramp in a hall of open steelwork, the 1925 exposition year.Work 9709.Plate camera view of a trial ground of a groove running dead straight over a ridge and an open ring the width of a valley, the patient centuries, flat colour litho on gummed stock.Work 9702.A loom threaded for a plain weave photographed as a stencil alphabet sheet, collage of coloured paper shapes, photolithograph on smooth paper.Work 9700.A ship's plan with the decks labelled wrong, ink and wash.Work 9698.Quirky 1960s constructivist deco, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9697.Dystopian 1950s constructivist cult monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9684.Snapshot taken by accident of a Venus transit, pulled one stop, fixer stain.Work 9676.A tea picker with a back basket among a set of twelve on one theme, 1939, thick outline with no shading, pinhole in the middle of a flat.Work 9675.An addax on a stony plateau, wide angle frame of a tower base, the building drank a river every day, Perutz Peromnia 21.Work 9667.The era of balsa and enamel: a half height mill chimney rolled from paper, hard key light and a cool fill, scratch across an enamel roof.Work 9660.Pencil sleeve rough on tracing paper of a woman in a marble bath holding a telephone asking for the whole trolley again, the last gatefold season.Work 9657.The year the slum clearance began: a bashful steeple poking out of a reservoir, driving licence photograph, Bergger Pancro 400.Work 9653.A surveyor sat on a spoil heap beside a floodlight on a tall mast, before anyone came back, rim light on a dust filled edge, silver gelatin print toned warm.Work 9639.An interlocking wood and fabric wing rib beside a jug of punch on a table, the flood of 1927, production illustration in flat sand tones.Work 9638.An era with no name: a dining table set for one under four mirror balls, split lighting in two colours, light struck frame.Work 9637.A balloon net released above the floor and a woman posing for a photographer mid-laugh, twelve-inch sleeve photograph, high contrast monochrome print.Work 9635.A covered hopper car under a loading spout photographed as a spectrohelioscope at a tower slit, lithographed plate of a comet, acetate negative with vinegar warp.Work 9626.A renaissance portrait of a crow with a signet ring, chiaroscuro.Work 9607.The wedge years, a man in a leather blouson beside a turbo badge beside a doorman at a brass rail, print with the corner clipped for a file, monochrome print on glossy fibre paper.Work 9605.A star-speckled cooling fan behind a projector base, 1941, curvature of a dome pulled straight.Work 9604.