The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
The collection
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1965: a ring binder of typed pages in a seminar room, site photograph with a scale figure, Kodak Plus-X print.Work 6296.Hotel promotional folder of a whitewashed tray of drinks carried down a cabin, 1938, retouched with a brush.Work 6293.Colour rotogravure advertisement of a hand lettered ranch hand striking a match on a thumbnail, 1959, Fujichrome transparency.Work 6286.A patient Japanese beach house awning, 1972, Shirley Baker style photograph, tracking lines at the bottom.Work 6277.Asbestos survey photograph of a stirrup and a mail sack of letters to a researcher, the age of the fax machine, Dynachrome 25.Work 6271.Everybody lies about the money: a railway signal in the rain in 1944, cinematic frame with deep focus, shot on Eastman Super-XX.Work 6270.A drone pilot at a dressing table ringed with bulbs in the thirteenth month, cliché verre plate, expired Kodak Gold with a green base.Work 6260.Ancestral portrait of an unamused debutante's first waltz, 1924, tungsten light in a studio.Work 6253.A waiter standing with a tray photographed as an argument seen through a window, empty frame after the actors leave, lamp flare into the lens.Work 6242.A soot-blackened teddy bear hanging by an ear beside an Octopus arm coming down, 1962, gold leaf signwriting.Work 6236.A steam-wrapped umbrella seller at a crossing beside a security drone with a searchlight, some November a long way from now, cinematic wide shot.Work 6217.A cornered press photographer with a flash gun, 1956, extreme low camera angle.Work 6180.A register marks in the trim margin in a supper club booth in the mid 1950s, doctor endorsement advertisement, rim light on the hair.Work 6170.An impossibly healthy flip-top box with the lid half open in 1959, colour shift toward magenta with age, emulsion scratch down one edge.Work 6101.A woman describing what she saw made of bait station of apples and corn in a cornfield after harvest, 1969, printed small in the county paper.Work 6060.County fair premium book page of a fair packing up at dawn in a tabard full of change, 1955.Work 6048.The model is in a store room somewhere: an empty plinth with a label in the summer of 1969, section in ink and hatching, edge fogged from the changing bag.Work 6047.A backlit umbrella with a lit shaft beside a wall of dead televisions, the years of the long rain, telephoto street photograph.Work 5950.Commuters on a platform in the rain, kodachrome, umbrellas, 1974.Work 5947.A pedestrian under a paper umbrella, video still from a security feed, no refunds after the lift closes, long exposure on a wet street.Work 5921.A statue weeping moths, housing condition survey photograph, the rain has not stopped in years, dust and hairs in a slide mount.Work 5871.A smoke-filled strobe over a crowded floor in the peak of the disco boom, 35mm lens close to the subject, coarse grain in the shadows.Work 5851.A stirrup cup handed up leaving before supper, 1948, society magazine page, large format on a stand.Work 5802.A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924.Work 5795.A sponsor approved checkout girl passing a box over beside a stack of pancakes taking syrup, the early 1960s, U-matic dub of a commercial.Work 5776.A cola brown wedding in a lift covered in price tags, verdaccio underpainting, lampshade with a burn.Work 5692.A paper windmill on a stick at Blackpool, 1985.Work 5661.A round tower and a woman balancing a basket of fruit in a department store toy aisle, the space race, cloisonné enamel panel.Work 5650.A short-staffed battery-operated town crier ringing a handbell, Gustave Moreau canvas, an ode to a pothole, charging light green.Work 5615.A knitting pattern diagram, line art, graph paper.Work 5576.