The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Dystopian 1940s constructivist tower, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9003.A gasholder of corrugated cardboard, the season of the model exhibition, half height fronts reading as distance, 16mm reversal film with a warm cast.Work 8996.Dystopian 1940s constructivist building, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8995.Dystopian 1940s constructivist building, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8993.Dystopian 1940s constructivist tower, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 8990.A silt-caked camera crane sweeping over the risers shadowed by a leaning canopy, a dress run in 1976, wide screen matte painting look.Work 8966.A surveyed lighthouse with its arc of visibility under a title in engraved script, the age of the chart sellers, the surveyor never reached the far bank, printed from a plate reworked twice.Work 8965.Frame shot from a second machine of a grass-beaten matched pair of towers rising out of rust haze, the week of low sun, duotone in grey and pink.Work 8956.A pelican sampler over a spout and an elevator in a whiteout of snow, grain elevator company sign painting, hand-coloured lantern slide.Work 8946.A shepherd counting a flock below a tower at the foot of nine hundred steps in the second long winter, heroic scale study with a human for measure, cyanotype in slate blue.Work 8883.A stagecoach team running flat out under a water tower, slur from a fast rotary run, flat colour on absorbent newsprint, brittle paper cracking at the fold.Work 8846.An air-conditioned stream of lights between vertical walls beside a cooling stack venting heat, the decade of the vertical franchise, human scale figure for reference.Work 8806.A model of a city that was never built, architectural photography, hard light.Work 8746.Balinese Kamasan painting of a shape in the fog taller than the church over a halftone crowd, existing light, rubber-stamped date on the back.Work 8705.A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody.Work 8701.The red was mixed too thin: a rocket leaving a curl of smoke in the post-war export years, folk art label with a naive figure, phosphorus smear across a corner.Work 8695.1942: a grain-warmed elevator at last light, prairie newspaper front page photograph, gum bichromate print.Work 8683.A field of two unlike poles facing beside an apparatus list by numeral, the mercury was topped up every term.Work 8666.The speedboat years: a hobnailed coal face measured with a yardstick, aerial oblique of a colliery, glass plate negative with flash burn.Work 8620.A camera mast turning slowly made of announcement screen over a trading floor across the plaza at the tower foot, the years the sun reached only the crowns, pen and ink cutaway with hatching.Work 8605.Subsidence claim survey photograph of a cannonball pyramid beside the arms of a subscribing family, the year the last tram ran, large plate with visible lamp halation.Work 8536.The field read as warm on every gauge: an atlas stand with a sloped top in the second passage, face rendered in a single hue, flare left in the optical composite.Work 8508.A storm-battered tower half swallowed by a snowfield under a shaft of sun on one tower, the winter the chain went dark, topographic survey illustration in wash.Work 8505.Hard-edged futurist illustration of an antenna mast crowded with dishes beneath a crest cut into stone, the decade the sky was sold in lots.Work 8491.An abandoned oil rig photographed as a Zuni fetish carving, magenta and cyan split lighting, Konica Infrared 750.Work 8484.One wet August in 1966: tilt up a paper chimney of a fire station with two tin engines on a hill of plaster over wire.Work 8483.A figure walking out of a dust cloud beside a machine at rest, large transparency of a sunrise, available light at sunrise, halation ring around the sun.Work 8425.A steeply angled chimney stack tapering to a rim, the VKhUTEMAS years, exhibition panel with photographs, photographed flat in even light.Work 8396.The century of the cut settlements: an outpost lit on its top three floors near a mixer truck at a wall base, silkscreen poster in six colours, development pulled for a flat contrast.Work 8393.A balustrade of carved serpents and a tower top above a sea of trees, heat and humidity photography, wet gate dupe of a survey reel.Work 8384.