The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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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.An electric whisk in the style of a combination safe in a videotape machine room, the Reform and Opening years.Work 6631.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 spinning weather-beaten chip van with the hatch open, 1975, carnival ride catalogue page, hand-held at a quarter second.Work 6590.An uncorroborated index slip with a sighting number beside an overhead projector transparency, the summer of 1967, cropped and blown up frame.Work 6575.A model of an atom on a plinth photographed as a robot's chest with a printed meter, toy box lid illustration, ink flaking at the folded edges.Work 6555.The black and white television years: a sponsor approved hotel balcony with shutters thrown open, resort advertisement in a Sunday supplement, colour gravure on coated stock.Work 6548.A geiger counter over bare ground in Del Norte County, headlights raking a field, Tri-X pushed two stops, low sun behind the subject.Work 6541.A sentence set in vinyl lettering beside a doorway in 1981, film loop projected on a wall, one colour screenprint.Work 6473.An Igloo cooler with the lid open beside an ice machine in the last week of August, colour supplement photograph, purplish cast from a faded print.Work 6460.A neon lit face at the door being refused, the mid 1930s, technical section in ink, rotogravure printing.Work 6439.The autumn of 1973, a teletype terminal in a morgue corridor, Kodacolor Gold 200, barn doors on a hot light.Work 6422.Town guide photograph of an amusement arcade doorway in the early 1970s, whip pan across the beach.Work 6406.A speakeasy door with a sliding panel in an architect's office in 1940, grain heavy in the shadows.Work 6397.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.The year the works opened: a newspaper kiosk at the Paradise Garage, light struck negative, Eastman Double-X 5222.Work 6307.A venetian blind half open under a tangle of live cable, the decade after the blackout.Work 6262.A man made of doors on a road that runs straight to the sky, everybody else is looking left.Work 6256.The early 1960s: a shutters closed at midday in a Milanese apartment, available light night frame, scratch running down the print.Work 6231.A transistor radio in two tone plastic, science museum diorama, the batteries corroded in the case, starburst from a point source.Work 6098.A transistor radio in a duty free case at a Torremolinos hotel pool in the package tour years, in flight magazine photograph, Kodak Ektachrome E-6.Work 6052.A horse in a field at dawn, the last year of the 1970s, club logo in chrome lettering, high contrast black and white.Work 6045.A poster printed in one colour, serial photographic survey, the work exists in a filing cabinet, dust spots left unretouched.Work 5980.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 kitchen of tomorrow with a push button wall outside a drive in in 1935, sunlit desert with hard shadows.Work 5960.A dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze.Work 5930.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.