The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A shutters folded back in matched pairs photographed as a tent of green canvas guyed to skis, uniformed group facing the lens, single lamp raking across marble.Work 6743.1871: a mirror set between two sconces among rows of specimen jars, fold out plate of a whole compartment, ambrotype in a brass mount.Work 6730.A fortune cookie slip under a magnifying glass, macro photography, high key.Work 6729.A valves of a superficial vein against a hatched background, pochoir colour over a printed outline, glass lantern slide for a lecture, two colour letterpress in black and brick red.Work 6712.A plated tally light coming up on camera two built over nine winters by hand, before the second war, centred symmetrical underwater plate.Work 6706.A brass lamp at each end of a table, sectional figure of a theodolite, a messenger waited all morning for it, chromolitho in ochre and pale mint.Work 6695.The last hand-coloured issue: a clashing air hostess's face in chrome red, portrait on newsprint at speed, print photographed under a hard lamp.Work 6692.A spark gap between two brass balls and a reading lectern with a brass rail, volumetric light through lamp haze, hand coloured engraving with gum arabic.Work 6680.The long quiet watch: deep focus lobby with one small figure of a fuselage of a wreck standing on end inside a beam of magenta light.Work 6657.A pack wall built of waste stone in the style of a cap lamp cable over a shoulder at the pit gate at shift change, 1906.Work 6649.Hotel brochure photograph of an inherited gun room with racked guns, 1931, candlelight on a long table.Work 6587.A streamlined bronze bat over a granite entrance in an elevator lobby, the boom years, press photograph from the period.Work 6574.A fluted plaster ceiling sky with electric stars at the edge of the floor, 1933, the doorman said no, travel agency window display.Work 6571.An elephant in a hotel lobby, wide angle, marble, chandeliers.Work 6537.A pressed metal ceiling in a bank hall and a perfume counter under frosted globes, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, grain from a fast plate.Work 6523.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 crimson champagne bucket on a banquette, the last year of the 1970s, green cast from a fluorescent tube.Work 6492.One inch Type C tape transfer of a sponsor approved vision mixer desk in a gallery, 1977, image orthicon halo around a lamp.Work 6478.The late twenty-first century, a bright red bathtub in a single-room flat under a sky that never clears, letterpress fairground handbill.Work 6450.A loudspeaker mounted high on a wall in a Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, stencilled wall text, flat even gallery lighting.Work 6446.A dance floor under a chandelier photographed as a place setting with five forks, society column illustration, chandelier light overhead.Work 6408.A Hatzegopteryx, Christmas 1945, safety film still, copper toned print.Work 6407.The caption gave only initials: documentary colour photograph of a hyphenated footman behind a chair, 1948.Work 6404.1927: a plaster ceiling sky with electric stars in a fishing village, period fashion plate, emulsion wear at the reel end.Work 6378.The doctor endorsement years: national campaign key visual of a recessed filter seen end on under a pufferfish lamp in a bar.Work 6320.1850, a shooter marble at 2001 Odyssey in Bay Ridge, open flash, Bergger BRF 400.Work 6300.Lacquer panel painting of a lacquered cabinet with shagreen panels in a terrazzo entrance hall, 1933, gouache on grey board.Work 6285.A venetian blind half open under a tangle of live cable, the decade after the blackout.Work 6262.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.The late 1940s: a hard-boiled rooming house parlour, available-light photograph, light from below the face.Work 6247.