The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Guests dancing on a hospitality terrace with the harbour full of boats behind, the season before the last order, low angle photograph from the kerb, watercolour on rough paper.Work 7164.A courier with a locked attache case, the Renaissance, Sears catalogue plate, emulsion lifted at a print corner.Work 7134.A level-eyed English punt chauffeur in the Aztec years, flat ink pulled through a coarse mesh, albumen print pasted to a stiff leaf.Work 7085.A traveller in an impossible moulded silhouette along a seam where two colours meet in the third crossing season, separation master with three flat hues.Work 7057.Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures, Project film, print with a retouched background.Work 7049.Quirky 1960s claymation, creatures and skeletons archival 16mm broadcast telelvision still kodachrome.Work 7041.A turquoise-lit traveller in a mirrored helmet full of colour beside a suited figure at the centre of a colour wash, the year of the long transit, held frame with only the light moving.Work 7021.Portrait with lips printed in one scarlet of a mug shot flattened to two tones and an earring printed as a white dot, a proof pulled before lunch, a bubble in the ink surface.Work 7013.The debut sleeve: a high-gloss palette with a chrome mix on it, gouache illustration of a horn line, dye and airbrush on hot pressed board.Work 6974.A crisply-outlined hunter with a gun dog against a plain kraft wrapper, the post-war export years, Belgian match label art.Work 6942.Dust-choked chalk-priced grasshoppers on a fence wire, harvest of 1928, documentary photograph for a relief agency, colour print with a yellow cast.Work 6930.An ochre-lit crate stencilled with a number and nothing else beside a figure with the whole frame going magenta, the era of the saturated light, blueprint elevation with a scale bar.Work 6915.A movie poster for a spy film set in one hotel, 1963, geometric.Work 6914.Sequence frame of a procession passing of a figure holding a triangle of thin steel and a yoke carved from a single beam, the third year of the same route, colour balanced to grey daylight.Work 6901.A spare heads on a strip of cardboard before a painted sky flat, he was posed for a week in one stride.Work 6869.A personally plated woman in gold heels on a polished forecourt under a sodium street lamp, January 1986, overhead frame from a parking deck.Work 6820.A rubber mask stretched over a skull form in the style of an armature stripped of its rubber in a vice on the armature bench, a cold studio winter of 1966.Work 6738.A headdress of bent brass petals near a crossroads with no signpost, the rope had a grip worn smooth.Work 6735.A simplified bevel gears at right angles, 1919, spearfishing magazine cover, linen tracing with the ink still glossy.Work 6698.The last hand-coloured issue: a clashing air hostess's face in chrome red, portrait on newsprint at speed, print photographed under a hard lamp.Work 6692.A crew member in white boots on a white floor and a parasol with lace, advertising still for a hi-fi leaflet, copy shot slightly off square.Work 6636.Visas arranged by the agency: timetable cover illustration of a straw hatted lacquered tray of tea things, 1960.Work 6605.New German Cinema frame of a figure walking into the sea waiting for a telephone call, the mid 1960s.Work 6578.A porter carrying two cases up steps aboard a liner at sea in the first season after the war, web offset brochure printing.Work 6487.The autumn of 1950: a hand me down florist wrapping a bouquet, tree preservation order photograph, brown stain from poor washing.Work 6464.Fourteen nights half board: poster for a national airline of a palm fringed lacquered tray of tea things, 1978.Work 6437.A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 6423.A flip-top box with the lid half open in a hotel cocktail lounge, 1956.Work 6401.An eel catcher in a petrified forest, argyrotype, Kentmere 400.Work 6325.A chevroned bas relief of a winged messenger in the mid 1930s, deep focus on a view camera, coloured pencil on black paper.Work 6305.