The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An usherette with a tray of cigarettes on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1940, stylised mural in flattened perspective, splice flash in a home movie.Work 6163.A terrazzo floored stylised eagle over a post office door, 1940, duotone in black and gold.Work 6065.A doorman under a canopy under a strobe, the lift was mirrored.Work 6027.A safe standing open across a room from an open door, ask for me at the desk.Work 5996.Faded Ektacolor print of a chain-link gate left open, Kodacolor II, thumbprint in the corner.Work 5976.The early 1980s: an amusement arcade doorway beside a beach house in Japan, seaside postcard, Kodachrome 40 Type A.Work 5973.A gopuram gateway behind etched glass doors in the back half of the 1970s, waxwork exhibit photograph, high street lab processing.Work 5963.A service door with a stepped surround and a neon script over a hotel eyebrow, lacquer panel painting, Kodachrome transparency.Work 5934.An official behind a glass screen and a factory gate at shift change, linocut print, deep focus stopped down.Work 5915.A whitewashed travel agent's window full of posters in a courtyard with a fountain, the Concorde years, photographed in another country, timetable cover illustration.Work 5911.A barber leaning in his own doorway at a country club bar, ask the man who smokes them.Work 5907.Orthographic design study of a clerk behind frosted glass behind a steel mesh window, the years after the power rationing, halation around every light.Work 5896.A terrazzo floor with a compass rose beside a bronze lift door, theatre programme cover, gouache on grey board.Work 5885.A beach hut door open to the sea beside a boating lake in the summer of 1976, David Hurn style photograph, orange fade of an old print.Work 5881.The second take was the one they used: an end lockup with a logo panel in 1979, in store demonstration segment, herringbone interference pattern.Work 5858.A pale blue sunburnt room key on a plastic fob, the long summer of 1977, colour supplement photograph, Kodachrome-X.Work 5842.35mm colour transparency of a bougainvillea over a breeze block wall on a strip of dead lawn, Kodachrome II, slight barrel distortion.Work 5812.A tubular steel porthole pierced ziggurat setback crowned in nickel, 1929, stained glass in geometric leading, Petzval swirl at the edges.Work 5784.A joss paper house under warranty during Advent, wooden, prison commissary list, light across a floor.Work 5732.The ending was shot first: Techniscope frame of a peasant corridor with doors on both sides, 1965.Work 5662.A fluted chrome elevator door with a chevron inlay beside a raked funnel, 1935, the liner burned at her pier, travel agency window display.Work 5643.A half-deflated curtain pulled behind a sliding door, the bicentennial summer, faded holiday snapshot, heavy over-exposure.Work 5612.Nothing grows past this line: a shotgun clipped inside a door in the years after the wells were capped, press photograph, shot on expired stock.Work 5597.A chipped nuclear bunker blast door on the first day of creation, photojournalism, fax transmission, broad lighting.Work 5526.A kiddush cup that is also a door inside a wardrobe, the sound of a lemon, choose your own adventure, fogbow.Work 5507.A scribbled-on sidehill gouger listening at a door, Abanindranath Tagore wash painting, show through.Work 5500.A black and white sea-sprayed honeycomb, Indian lorry painting, a building nobody enters, contact print sequence.Work 5428.A projection booth between showings, warm light, reels, dust.Work 5381.A paternoster lift between floors, available light, motion blur.Work 5375.A ticket office with the window shuttered, available light, worn counter.Work 5374.