The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Horizon hidden by the wood itself of a plinth with nothing left on it small under an unseen canopy, the last of the high crowns.Work 6717.The last dry winter, a column base moulding under clear water under a drip falling from a rib, long exposure of four minutes, silver gelatin on matte fibre.Work 6702.A simplified bevel gears at right angles, 1919, spearfishing magazine cover, linen tracing with the ink still glossy.Work 6698.A wind-burnt ski school line in matching red bibs in New Year 1982, airbrushed gouache on board, flash fill against hard sun.Work 6693.A neon-washed alpine saxifrage on a rock fragment beside an alley mouth glowing green, the middle of the synthetic boom, rim light through falling rain.Work 6666.A first class hydrofoil crossing a bay, the package tour years, luggage label design, wide angle lens with a bowed horizon.Work 6618.Papers ready at the barrier: reportage photograph of a soot-stained gang in matching mirrored visors, the era of the retrofitted machine.Work 6542.A robot with piston arms, 1941, Populuxe brochure illustration, Technicolor three strip.Work 6535.A marquee on a lawn made of full length portrait in a gilt frame on a driveway with the wagon parked, the late 1920s, snow from a weak aerial signal.Work 6531.An asylum garden with benches in a convent corridor, 1961.Work 6519.The atomic age: gouache illustration on board of a model city of the World of Tomorrow on a pulp magazine cover.Work 6510.A season after the convoys stopped: polarised landscape photograph of a radio mast guyed with cable in a cloud of its own dust.Work 6482.A tunnel boring machine in an igloo, Polaroid emulsion lift, shallow depth of field at f2, an X-ray fogged roll from an airport.Work 6462.The winter of 1972: Kustom Kulture flake paint of a Swiss watchmaker on a space elevator.Work 6409.Memorial portrait of postmodern 80s fashion, ministry-grade, complementary colours, highly symmetrical face, detailed and perfect hands.Work 6349.A bush hammered concrete pier, serial typology of structures, the lifts have been out for months, low winter sun raking a facade.Work 6324.A Googie roof sloping at an acute angle beside a landed saucer, 1947, Amazing Stories cover illustration, red gel washing the backdrop.Work 6299.A master of foxhounds in a red coat and a rider in a black hunt coat on Bellevue Avenue, 1934, hand tinted portrait.Work 6250.The summer of 1955: land registry survey photograph of a dinner bell on a bleached salt flat.Work 6223.A manhole steaming in the street at a window overlooking an alley, the first winter after the war, ink and wash illustration, natural light through a window.Work 6213.An electric eel stunning prey at Opatija in 1215, Adox KB21.Work 6211.A gravel sweep in front of a house made of place slip in copperplate at Gstaad in winter, 1948, long exposure indoors.Work 6207.An openly sulking patterned carpeted storm drain outfall, Easter 1968, gelatin silver print, available darkness.Work 6199.The lights went out at eleven: tourist brochure photograph of an out of season statue in a park in winter, 1977.Work 6178.A picket line in winter, black and white, braziers, breath.Work 6175.Two days before we left: a pool cover half rolled back in the long summer of 1977, faded holiday snapshot, chromatic fringing on the coping.Work 6164.A long suffering wood sorrel in the Asuka period, Ektachrome 160 Tungsten, Ilfochrome Classic.Work 6148.An affidavit signed at the bottom never printed at full size, 1991, paperback book cover plate, Kodachrome II.Work 6100.A semi detached instant camera under an overpass with no road left, Christmas 1939, Mass Observation photograph.Work 6075.Frost on a window from the inside, macro photography, backlit.Work 6063.