The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A Balinese offering basket down a runner carpet in mint, 1791.Work 6739.A pump house at a section point, amateur snapshot on a box camera, the agent kept the books in pencil, early colour reversal film.Work 6732.A traced fired pinnacled canopy over a standing figure, around 1380, flat pattern with no cast shadow, window wired to an external guard.Work 6718.A cardboard shop front with a tissue window on a pavement of scored cardboard, the second baseboard of 1974.Work 6710.Panoramic plate stitched from three frames of a lintel carved with nine concentric rings below a colossal carved lintel, platinum print on rag paper, long lens at three hundred millimetres.Work 6707.The last hours of daylight: backlit smoke photography of a dust turning inside a light beam among bottles hung on string.Work 6705.Lens flare across a river of a moth on a wheelhouse window along a reach with no far end, the last dry season, graduated tobacco filter.Work 6679.A rim deck curving up out of sight hanging off a line a hundred metres out, after the last resupply, specular highlight on bare metal, screen print in two flat tones.Work 6674.Relief carving rendered in flat light of a water lying level on both sides of a road along a band of colour running to a point, colour negative with no correction at all.Work 6658.A shadow-barred light beam through a roof hole, a day the stone stayed cool, stillness as the subject, smoke pumped into a gallery.Work 6654.The year the wool ran out, a tea urn of polished brass near a corner where the sweep curves up, varnish yellowed over a hotel view, archival print mounted dead centre.Work 6652.A measured bank counter in black marble and brass in a converted warehouse space, 1938, the architect died before the topping out, topographic photograph.Work 6621.A rabbit ear antenna on a set beside a radar dish in the atomic age, coarse screen newsprint halftone.Work 6612.A window washed with rain standing in a lit doorway, the years right after the war, studio publicity still, street lamp as the only source.Work 6594.The black and white television years: a sponsor approved hotel balcony with shutters thrown open, resort advertisement in a Sunday supplement, colour gravure on coated stock.Work 6548.A hard-boiled staircase with a turned banister among stacked crates in the dark, 1944, rotogravure page.Work 6546.Pulp interior illustration in line of a tailfin on a building parapet in 1935, offset lithography on toy tin.Work 6536.Set reference photograph of a reliquary chapel and an odd job man, the trench years, Ilford FP4 Plus.Work 6503.Camera obscura view of a troglodyte village obscured by somebody's elbow, the year the smokeless zone came in.Work 6502.Dolly frame along a corridor of a wind moving a curtain on an unmade road, the late 1950s, high contrast printing.Work 6485.1931, a jalousie window above the deck beside an oleander hedge, Ektachrome 64, pencil on vellum.Work 6469.The years the maps stopped matching: a bullet-pocked scavenger in a gas mask, tracking shot still, handheld from a moving vehicle.Work 6466.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 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 candidate on a campaign bus on a safari lodge veranda, New Year 1955.Work 6445.A Mercury locomotive shroud and a smoking room with Egyptian murals, film still in black and white, large format with a shift lens.Work 6435.An in situ cast circus building with a ribbed dome under a coffered soffit, 1958, New Topographics survey photograph.Work 6414.A presentation rendering pinned to a board and a terracotta panel with a stylised palm, pencil and wash study, tempera on panel.Work 6402.An enforcer in a double-breasted suit in a pawnshop window in the mid 1940s, monochrome film still, Cooke Speed Panchro lens.Work 6400.A speakeasy door with a sliding panel in an architect's office in 1940, grain heavy in the shadows.Work 6397.