The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A shouting tape over a broken window pane in two weeks before the hall closed, photograph creased across a corner, print made in a bathroom darkroom.Work 7019.The third generation of shareholders: a trading floor with every terminal lit within a stair core without windows, top light in a vast interior, two second exposure at a window.Work 6975.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 meridian line projected on a dome in a lobby exhibit case, silver gelatin print on glossy paper, lens flare from a console lamp, tungsten balance gone warm.Work 6747.The season the funicular opened: a brass-buttoned two bellhops standing at matched attention, funicular timetable illustration, 16mm frame with soft edges.Work 6733.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 spiral ramp to an upper lobby at the join of two curved walls in a late year of the long transit, Ektachrome under tungsten light.Work 6668.An open door with nobody in it with the bill open in song, the second sitting, Kaiserpanorama view, 65mm negative with fine grain.Work 6667.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.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 streamlined bronze bat over a granite entrance in an elevator lobby, the boom years, press photograph from the period.Work 6574.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 ship model in a lobby vitrine, architectural elevation in ink and wash, the blueprints were lost in the move, flat even north light.Work 6562.An elephant in a hotel lobby, wide angle, marble, chandeliers.Work 6537.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 ballroom stair with a nickel handrail, the year of the Paris exposition, presentation perspective in gouache, mirror reflection doubling the scene.Work 6518.A ziggurat setback crowned in nickel in a hotel lobby lined with marble, subway platform poster, night exposure with wet pavement.Work 6500.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.An atrium with glass lifts, 1928, perspective corrected photograph, split grade printing.Work 6461.A Mercury locomotive shroud and a smoking room with Egyptian murals, film still in black and white, large format with a shift lens.Work 6435.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 scholarship winning climbing frame in bare earth in a cutaway of a building, the first year of electric light, dalle de verre window.Work 6376.