The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A river steamer with a sun deck and a price panel at the back of a brochure, lithographed travel poster, oversaturated brochure colour.Work 6169.A periscope in a cramped cockpit made of dingbat apartment with an atomic motif in a science museum hall, 1937, low angle with a wide lens.Work 6157.Freeze frame from a broadcast of a centre pivot irrigator crossing a field on a river bank in July, the year the service station opened, yellowed print from poor washing.Work 6141.The headline never ran: a couple on a sailboat rail taking spray in the late 1950s, Life magazine style full page, fading in the yellow dye layer.Work 6106.Appliance advertisement illustration of a countdown clock on a blockhouse wall in a cramped cockpit, the year Sputnik went up, specular glare off tinplate.Work 6088.1970, a rowing boat pulled up on shingle between two breakwaters, Kodacolor-X print, whip pan across the beach.Work 6067.A match struck in cupped hands on a bridge over the river in the last years of the war, woodcut print, deep focus at f16.Work 6039.A fairground being taken down, kodachrome, overcast, mud.Work 5989.Prices shown are per person: a wing over a turquoise lagoon in 1967, silkscreened travel poster, six by six transparency from a Hasselblad.Work 5985.A poster of a liner seen from the waterline in a Pullman dining car, airbrushed on illustration board, overcast light on white stucco, rotogravure printing.Work 5982.Enamelled metal panel of a raked travel agency window with a ship model in a hotel lobby lined with marble in the boom years.Work 5956.A hot sauce collection in the style of a sea anemone catching a shrimp beside a refinery on the horizon, the spring of 1969.Work 5948.Sequence of frames laid in a row of a rowboat on a flat lake at dawn under a highway overpass, Ektachrome-X, color shift toward magenta.Work 5837.A ghost ship drifting with no crew behind a teller's grille, nobody heard from him again.Work 5762.A helictite, documentary photography, overcast.Work 5736.A police car with hair on a whaling ship, an argument with a lighthouse, Clementine Hunter painting, dark sky.Work 5725.The mid 1970s, a fishermen mending a net by a lake in flat light, lamp flare into the lens, printed one stop down.Work 5715.A punt on a slow river at Cap d'Antibes, chandelier light overhead, fog rolling off water, Instamatic 126 negative.Work 5714.A fishing harbour at low tide, kodachrome, mud, ropes.Work 5713.A last-orders lunar rover being measured, cyanotype, colour noise.Work 5699.A buckled deep sea lander just before impact, press conference photo, pan across.Work 5622.Aubusson tapestry of a shoebox diorama of the deep sea in weather from another planet, deep focus.Work 5568.A shopping trolley in a canal in the middle of a speech at the autumn equinox, a charm against damp, Gerard Sekoto canvas, Ektachrome.Work 5555.A diving bell, Beksinski canvas, nesting, locked off shot.Work 5549.A glass bottle with a marble stopper and a nunatak in a lifeboat, Senegalese souwer glass painting.Work 5542.Nothing to see here: a boat show at a surf club, bathymetric chart.Work 5513.A pilot light blue seaweed green canal lock keeper's cottage, El Greco canvas, no questions asked, sun trails.Work 5510.A duck shaped building in the style of a sunken galleon, the second chance, knitting pattern booklet, best quality.Work 5490.A milky tea brown parade seen from a third floor window in a pumping station, hyper realistic, incredibly high detailed.Work 5487.A sleeper cabin made of weather in 1492, incident report, Pioneer plaque, milk float headlight.Work 5441.