The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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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 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 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 6484.1931, a jalousie window above the deck beside an oleander hedge, Ektachrome 64, pencil on vellum.Work 6469.The autumn of 1953: a newly bereaved Greek presidential guard marching, zoopraxiscope disc, window light through net curtains.Work 6463.A heavy hearted carbolic sod house, the Iranian Revolution years, staff training filmstrip frame, Efke KB25.Work 6403.A crack running through the deck photographed as a bottle of Coppertone, William Eggleston style photograph, Eastman 5254 negative.Work 6347.A marble hall with a staircase under a cedar on a lawn, Kodachrome resort photograph, background painted out.Work 6340.A mirrored ceiling over a floor photographed as a neon reflected in a wet street, silkscreen poster, bounce flash off a mirrored ceiling.Work 6327.An axonometric of a stair core in the style of a hyperbolic paraboloid shell in a service corridor, 1932.Work 6316.The year the reef was still clear, a passenger stepping onto the tarmac in sunglasses in a Samarkand tiled courtyard, super eight home movie film, tropical sun at noon with hard shadows.Work 6306.A patient Japanese beach house awning, 1972, Shirley Baker style photograph, tracking lines at the bottom.Work 6277.The year the river was roofed over: optical composite frame of a pachinko player in a smoke haze under a vaulted concrete ramp.Work 6275.A steps with a rusting handrail beside a chain-link gate, the film sat in the camera a year.Work 6216.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 radio set in a stepped walnut case at the foot of a chrome stair in the depression years, airbrush illustration on board, vignetted corners.Work 6147.A top lit sgraffito panel on a stair tower beside an escalator hall with a mirrored soffit, the year before demolition, travel sketch in a notebook.Work 6146.A bead shop at a casino terrace, the cotton famine years.Work 6118.Press photograph of an opening of a scaffolded access deck along a housing block, 1928, contact print from a large negative.Work 6072.A library with a rolling ladder made of ballot box in a gallery behind a line of butts, the first season after the war, bled off the page.Work 6050.A newsstand with a curved chrome hood in a Havana stair hall in 1925, worm's eye view from the pavement.Work 6044.A reflecting pool before a portico made of measured elevation on a sheet in a top lit reading room, the late 1950s, available light in a stairwell.Work 6033.A Mauresque grille over a stair window on a liner leaving port, 1926, pochoir print, varnished poster stock.Work 6030.A stoical sanatorium staircase down to the sea, the wakes weeks, flying spot scanner transfer.Work 6018.A circus of townhouses, trade directory plate, the light went before the last setup, E-4 slide faded to pink.Work 6000.A spandrel panel in dark glass in the style of a fire escape on a brick flank on a raised podium, 1976.Work 5988.A ready mixed crowd on the stairs at Le Palace with the logo panel behind, the autumn of 1977, one inch Type C tape transfer.Work 5971.35mm black and white film still of a silhouetted blotter stained with ink, the 1940s, hard key with no fill.Work 5954.The reel changes here: Gevacolor frame of a flower decked staircase seen from below, the Concorde years.Work 5927.