The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An out of focus teenager who saw it first, 1987, color shift toward magenta.Work 6515.A motel conference room lectern photographed as a motel sign with a creature on it, blurred telephoto frame, Instamatic 126 negative.Work 6506.Hand tinted publicity still of a martini with two olives on a pick and a pouch of rough cut tobacco spilling, 1957, Kodak Ektachrome E-3.Work 6505.The autumn of 1953: a newly bereaved Greek presidential guard marching, zoopraxiscope disc, window light through net curtains.Work 6463.A gun room with racked guns by a hand-painted depth marker in 1931, rotogravure ink.Work 6449.Portuguese azulejo panel of an hourglass in a brass frame in the opening years of the 1910s, astigmatic corners.Work 6443.Town guide photograph of an amusement arcade doorway in the early 1970s, whip pan across the beach.Work 6406.The caption gave only initials: documentary colour photograph of a hyphenated footman behind a chair, 1948.Work 6404.A wave machine in an empty swimming baths, fluorescent, ripples.Work 6395.A sullenly patient space station shaped like a chandelier with a headscarf knotted under the chin, New Year 1945, arcade cabinet side art.Work 6373.The year the reef was still clear, a passenger stepping onto the tarmac in sunglasses in a Samarkand tiled courtyard, super eight home movie film, tropical sun at noon with hard shadows.Work 6306.A man in Ultrasuede in a mirrored lift, the summer of 1979.Work 6298.A chain-wrapped storage tank streaked with rust, the third year without rain, Ektachrome transparency, blue horizontal streak flare.Work 6288.Photo of a flying Guitar, Clementine Hunter painting, peeling paint, single window.Work 6282.A blue pool vacuum hose on a night express, 1927, holiday album photograph, rotogravure printing.Work 6269.An unsettled ship's cook in 1703, Kodacolor II with faded cyan, Fujicolor Superia 200.Work 6258.A man made of doors on a road that runs straight to the sky, everybody else is looking left.Work 6256.An ocean liner smoking room on a Miami Beach porch, symmetrical elevation on axis, three colour process printing, tempera on panel.Work 6232.A sand-covered corner of the Jubilee Pool at Penzance under a blue umbrella, 1976, holiday camp brochure page.Work 6226.A night shift museum of curiosities, the Ptolemaic years, Adox NC 17 colour negative.Work 6225.An electric eel stunning prey at Opatija in 1215, Adox KB21.Work 6211.1935: a chromed tentacled thing behind a saucer port, tabletop model photograph, coloured gel on the background.Work 6209.A paperboy dropping the sponsor's flyer before the late film, station identification frame, colour bleeding outside the lines.Work 6181.An usherette with a tray of cigarettes on a whitewashed lane of steps in 1940, stylised mural in flattened perspective, splice flash in a home movie.Work 6163.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 salaried atomic power plant with a cooling stack with a works number stencilled on the locker, the turn of the 1900s, buncheong ware.Work 6108.A gone blue guerrilla fighter, the Silk Road centuries, Kodalith Ortho 6556.Work 6046.Square format snapshot of a bottle of Coppertone with the paint coming off, 1974.Work 5981.An Artek pioneer camp on the shore in a poster hoarding, theatrical footlights from below, flat spot colour lithography, Fujichrome R25N Single-8.Work 5977.A swirly carpeted hojicha, the Titanic year, Ektachrome on the E-4 process.Work 5936.