The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Tableau lit for one exposure only of a groomed figure whose surface reads wet and is dry beside a fountain in a hotel garden in a year named only by its colour.Work 8022.The barman ran out of ice by three: society page colour photograph of an unpeopled model of a building inside a larger building, the middle term.Work 8021.1934, an unlit weather chart pinned in the radio room with the hatch still open, popular magazine colour plate.Work 8020.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 8019.A washbasin that folds into a wall in the style of a piano stool centred on a patterned rug beside a navigation table under a lamp, the year the hull was silvered.Work 8018.A fume-hazed man in slippers on a balcony at breakfast in the opening years of the 1970s, grainless large format colour, trimmed off centre on the sheet.Work 8017.A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 8016.A pinnied envelope with a stamp upside down on a stage floor painted gloss grey, the glam rock years, the last coal burner went for scrap in 1958, photolithograph.Work 8015.A gravel-floored tool rack with outlines painted behind beside a pool with a level surface, the year of the fourth cavern, presentation plate for a learned society.Work 8014.An unflinching glaucous lake that swallowed a village with its steeple showing, the week the year repeated, reflection frame in a boat windscreen, retouched proof with pencil on the overlay.Work 8013.A man in shirtsleeves with a pen behind each ear in a corridor of grey terminals in midweek in 1985, rotary press page with ghosting.Work 8012.A crest-high long shadow of a rider at dusk, forty days out from the last market, large format view with a thin file in it, charcoal and chalk on toned paper.Work 8011.An ice-glazed slash burning on a cut-over hill beside a boy bowling a hoop down a lane, the spring freshet, stereoview of a big stump.Work 8010.1797: a lichen planted privet hedge of clipped flock, plate finished in nine colours, magenta creeping into the slates.Work 8009.Paper peepshow of a firmly outlined mosquitofish beside a white convertible at a kerb in the autumn of 1986.Work 8008.A stamped works mark on a billet end made of micrograph of a grain boundary beside a cooling bed of red bars, the summer of the big heat, videotape frame with head bars.Work 8007.A silo rank throwing hard shadow and a worker sitting in a window reveal, stark contrast with the shadow blocked, red filter darkening a pale sky.Work 8006.A crescent moon with a profile at the crossing of two leads in around 1530, thirteenth century medallion manner, cold paint applied and never fired.Work 8005.A slow-drifting figure standing dead centre of a colour field beside a sheet of vertical streaks, the age of the lone passenger, ultra-wide frame with no horizon.Work 8004.A woman in a scarlet dress on a pit gantry and a commentator in a blazer with a microphone on the pit lane wall in full sun, the gold livery years, lithographed circuit poster.Work 8003.An imported pseudobulb and flower of a Cattleya, 1813, veins picked out in a darker tone, gum arabic left glossy on the petals.Work 8002.A petrol station in the middle of nowhere, kodachrome, heat haze.Work 8001.A tunnel mouth squared out of rock within a courtyard open to the sky, shift lens elevation of a facade, dust specks printed into the sky.Work 8000.The years of the six-hour curfew, a cyan-edged arcade cabinet lighting two faces facing the lens with no expression, illustrated concept plate for a genre film.Work 7999.A bobbin-laden camera pointed at its own monitor against undyed linen gone honey, the Iron Curtain years, the hall let them have it for nothing, listed building consent photograph.Work 7998.Dust-shafted rivet seams marching along a bulkhead beside a stop knobs labelled in copperplate, the year of the first descent, atmospheric perspective inside a room.Work 7997.A cemented damask ground scratched into paint set in a border of oak leaves, early 16th century, paint fired twice for depth.Work 7996.Head printed over a squeegee streak of a cigarette held in flat red lips, a fingerprint set into the pink, flesh flat printed over a magenta ground.Work 7995.The Maya classic period, a gold-edged hobgoblin sergeant above a marble dado, contre jour sunrise still.Work 7994.An attendant lacing a rental boot, a Saturday afternoon in 1980, flash-lit rink photograph, Fujicolor 400 with mixed light.Work 7993.