The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A marquee with three tiers of bulbs, mosaic panel in glass tesserae, the cinema is a furniture shop now, low key studio lighting.Work 6172.Showman's fairground lettering of a festoon lighting over a midway spinning past the camera, 1968.Work 6151.A bowl of noodles under a heat lamp in a courtyard hung with laundry, ENR silver retention, single hard key with no fill, push processed one stop.Work 6150.A wind tunnel with nothing in it, industrial photography, hard light.Work 6142.A neon-lit ballroom entrance on the pier, the summer of 1980, television variety show still, bare bulb flash head.Work 6139.A neon lit Bund tower with a stepped copper roof under a fan of bulbs, the year the liner was launched, the glass came from a factory that closed, poster in Bifur capitals.Work 6132.A dripping gutter running with neon colour in the years of the long rain, practical neon as the only source, telephoto compression down a street.Work 6131.A patron asleep at a counter on the far side of a rain curtain, mixed colour temperature, practical lamps in frame, HMI through a rain bar.Work 6126.An atomic powered glass of water with a tablet dropping in, the year of the fair, image orthicon halo around a lamp.Work 6110.A hospital corridor at night in an empty dance hall, 1977, cinema verite frame, shallow focus on a long lens.Work 6089.A tinted pin spot on a mirror ball, the winter of 1978, Ilford HP5 pushed.Work 6082.A lift mechanism seen from the shaft, available light, cables and counterweights.Work 6078.A double-crossed newsstand under a bare bulb in an apartment with the lights off, the years right after the war, cinematic frame with deep focus.Work 6069.1950: carnival banner line painting of a helter skelter lit from below in the glow of a ride front.Work 6037.Airbrushed rendering on board of a ventilation shaft in the pavement in 1951, neutral density for a long exposure.Work 5993.A painted rounding board with the panels off, 1952, Daniel Meadows style photograph, long exposure at night.Work 5969.An in situ cast louvred atrium with glass lifts, 1932, conservation survey photograph, bounced light off a white soffit.Work 5953.Scrollwork panel painting of a pier deck full of rides under a black sky, bulb flare in the frame, rain on the lens.Work 5951.Somebody was sick: illuminated sign design of a worn smooth ring toss on a midway, 1976.Work 5933.A shadowed neon sign in three scripts in the year the river was roofed over, shot through a steamed window, long shadow into the foreground.Work 5920.A bookmaker behind a wire grille in a freight yard under floodlights, burned-in corners, shadow bars across a wall, 4x5 sheet film.Work 5889.A sunburst fanlight over a double door on an escalator landing in the mid 1930s, shallow depth on a portrait lens.Work 5887.Photostat of a documentation photograph in a frame, bare bulb in a basement, photostat contrast.Work 5886.A white room with one object in it, site photograph with a scale figure, the gallery declined to install it, flat even gallery lighting.Work 5880.Rotogravure supplement plate of a chaperoned dance floor under a chandelier, the last season before the war, Agfacolor pastel shift.Work 5869.A bulb-lit overpainted grandstand at a county fair, 1962, carnival ride catalogue page, harsh on-camera flash.Work 5866.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.Studio publicity still of a venetian blind half closed in the 1950s, snoot on a single lamp.Work 5848.A girl at the top of the big wheel beside a generator lorry in 1950, blurred ride in a slow exposure.Work 5847.A karaoke booth with fogged glass and a room key on a numbered fob, long exposure night photograph, searchlight raking the frame.Work 5838.