The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The years the towers stood empty: a canopy pressing against a stone wall among fallen blocks, haze separated tower planes, neutral density in a hot courtyard.Work 7032.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.A bare bulb strung down a passage over still black water, balloon lettering in ruled capitals, sodium lamp in a wet bore.Work 7014.A broken column upright among saplings, the year the mill was built, fixer stained print, photocopy with correction fluid showing.Work 6894.A tunnel mouth of painted plaster with a pin through its base, the week before the club show, lithograph in three stone greys, tungsten balanced colour film.Work 6833.A flare-haloed traveller with light streaming from behind the head rimmed in the opposite colour, a century into the passage, complementary clash of magenta and cyan.Work 6795.A pump house at a section point, amateur snapshot on a box camera, the agent kept the books in pencil, early colour reversal film.Work 6732.The season before the survey: tariff brochure plate of a corridor vanishing into pale haze beneath a lobby clock and two barometers.Work 6709.A floating hospital in the style of a snake shedding its skin past a bank of white lockers, the coldest hour of the night.Work 6642.A concrete rib tunnel with a wet floor and a padlock cut and left hanging in a rack at a market stall, 1909, vanishing point down a lit bore.Work 6640.Hard rim light on a parapet edge of a ram's skull nailed above a doorway over a dry ditch on a lifting bridge, the first ascent of the pass, copperplate engraving with fine hatching.Work 6639.Darkroom print with heavy burn-in of a broke bare bulb on a stairwell landing, 1945, silhouette against a lit wall.Work 6601.A window washed with rain standing in a lit doorway, the years right after the war, studio publicity still, street lamp as the only source.Work 6594.A fluted plaster ceiling sky with electric stars at the edge of the floor, 1933, the doorman said no, travel agency window display.Work 6571.1964: European art cinema still of a silhouette against a white wall in a Milanese apartment.Work 6564.A pressed metal ceiling in a bank hall and a perfume counter under frosted globes, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, grain from a fast plate.Work 6523.A Havana lobby lined in green marble, industrial catalogue illustration, nobody remembers the band's name, ink and wash on tracing paper.Work 6497.Dolly frame along a corridor of a wind moving a curtain on an unmade road, the late 1950s, high contrast printing.Work 6485.The mosaic was saved and the rest was not: Bechers style typology of a lichen spotted sgraffito panel on a stair tower, the reconstruction years.Work 6484.The autumn of 1973, a teletype terminal in a morgue corridor, Kodacolor Gold 200, barn doors on a hot light.Work 6422.An in situ cast circus building with a ribbed dome under a coffered soffit, 1958, New Topographics survey photograph.Work 6414.A speakeasy door with a sliding panel in an architect's office in 1940, grain heavy in the shadows.Work 6397.1927: a plaster ceiling sky with electric stars in a fishing village, period fashion plate, emulsion wear at the reel end.Work 6378.A pier arcade at midday outside an amusement arcade in 1977, British Railways poster, shot against the light.Work 6344.An anodised white colonnade on a red plain inside a glazed atrium, 1928, photograph of an architectural model.Work 6304.1850, a shooter marble at 2001 Odyssey in Bay Ridge, open flash, Bergger BRF 400.Work 6300.A blue pool vacuum hose on a night express, 1927, holiday album photograph, rotogravure printing.Work 6269.A brise soleil across a south wall in a double height foyer, nobody has used the ramp for years.Work 6268.A venetian blind half open under a tangle of live cable, the decade after the blackout.Work 6262.A bush hammered colonnade of tapering arches in a flat agricultural landscape, the year the estate opened, perspective rendering in ink and wash.Work 6244.