The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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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 wall of trophies in a panelled den in the style of a leaf floating in the deep end in a fenced backyard, the Eisenhower years.Work 6230.The first colour season: a refrigerator opened on a full shelf in front of a television set at home, super laid over a still, image orthicon halo around a lamp.Work 6220.A poorly lit akhlut, the Spanish Civil War years, wardrobe test Polaroid, a minute by streetlight.Work 6182.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.Miniature room photograph of a viewing mound in a corridor of humming transformers, Fujicolor Reala 100, streetlight through a rainy window.Work 6160.A mink collared bathroom mirror in a nightclub beside a mirrored ceiling over a floor, the last year of the 1970s, point of sale display print.Work 6155.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.An off duty soda fountain with a rocket mural with a lit dome for a head, the space race, plaster cast documentation photograph.Work 6136.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 etched glass screen behind a bar beside a porthole window, the boom years, inlaid marquetry panel, overcast light on white stucco.Work 6109.A chalk outline on wet pavement in the stairwell of a rooming house, gobo pattern on bare plaster, printed on nitrate stock, shaft of light through a blind.Work 6093.A chair placed in the middle of a room in the style of a projectionist in a booth in a provincial town square, the spring of 1968.Work 6076.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.A bed with a hot water bottle and a long drop toilet, shellwork mosaic panel, paper negative.Work 6068.A doorman under a canopy under a strobe, the lift was mirrored.Work 6027.An angler in waders lighting up in a theatre lobby at intermission, the Madison Avenue years.Work 5984.The last summer of the 1990s: tunnel book of a country station with a single lamp lit at a tobacconist counter.Work 5923.Crewelwork of a Neoclassical bank in the glare off the water, bounced flash in a hotel lobby, sun directly overhead.Work 5918.Photostat of a documentation photograph in a frame, bare bulb in a basement, photostat contrast.Work 5886.Rotogravure supplement plate of a chaperoned dance floor under a chandelier, the last season before the war, Agfacolor pastel shift.Work 5869.The era of the retrofitted machine, a ceiling fan turning in a wet room against a wall of condensation, magenta shift in an old transparency, super eight home movie film.Work 5863.A moth around a pool light in the style of a man running under a street lamp on a terrazzo pool deck, the first winter after the war.Work 5849.Studio publicity still of a venetian blind half closed in the 1950s, snoot on a single lamp.Work 5848.A souk alley hung with lamps in a bamboo lounge hung with tapa cloth in the jet age, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement, fingerprint on a transparency corner.Work 5846.A pale blue sunburnt room key on a plastic fob, the long summer of 1977, colour supplement photograph, Kodachrome-X.Work 5842.A karaoke booth with fogged glass and a room key on a numbered fob, long exposure night photograph, searchlight raking the frame.Work 5838.A blackmailed coroner table under a lamp on a fire escape in the rain, 1949, street photograph.Work 5801.Faded Eastmancolor print frame of a ticking wall clock in a hallway, Ferraniacolor warm cast, Ilford HPS pushed.Work 5787.A glass bricked Mumbai apartment block with a nautical rail beside a chromed radiator, the mid 1930s, Erte style fashion illustration.Work 5758.