The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A matting-floored crewman in a beaded collar leaning out black against an enormous sun, the tail of the 1960s, telephoto compression of a formation.Work 10296.A tank turret swinging at the reader printed at twice the intended size, the year the dots got bigger, dot pattern standing in for shading, trim cut through a colour bar.Work 10245.Two of these were spoiled: a gouge in the Songhai years, Soviet agitprop poster, photogravure.Work 10005.A tank on a plinth covered in flowers, glasnost, fire damage assessment photograph, four colour process misregistration.Work 9773.A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 9724.Muted pastels in a cold interior of a German nutcracker soldier in the Swiss Style years, K-14 processed Kodachrome.Work 9683.A row of six identical heads photographed as a pilot's face under a peaked cap, portrait blocked in with flat ink only, sun bleach across one half of the sheet.Work 9662.A signalman holding out a staff, railway poster in flat colour, the pilot dropped a wheel that morning, faded colour print on resin paper.Work 9573.Colour negative work pushed for density of a procession of figures in stacked collars with a fish still on the spear, the last week of a wet winter.Work 9479.A gilt-lettered airline steward at a cabin door with a red route line behind it, 1928, ruled aerial view poster.Work 9375.Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9019.A machine at rest with blades drooping under a wash of red dust, exposed for the sky and nothing else, archival positive with a hot sky, veiling glare across the horizon.Work 8827.A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 8765.A two inspectors either side of a cordon rope past a marker driven into the dust, cold shadow against hot ground, wide gauge frame scanned at full width.Work 8551.An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph.Work 8472.Operating rule book illustration of a fireman filling the tender by hand, coarse newspaper halftone, selenium-toned print.Work 8348.A henchmen in matching turtlenecks in the style of a paratrooper cutting his harness in the shadow of a giant robot, a giant sized special.Work 8221.A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 8016.Frontal portrait of a helmeted figure of a rope-tended silt cloud raised by one boot, 1896, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp.Work 7841.A suited figure beside a tank taller than a hall, the second generation of gantries, wood engraving in a weekly paper, heavy-black chromogenic print.Work 7065.A crisply-outlined hunter with a gun dog against a plain kraft wrapper, the post-war export years, Belgian match label art.Work 6942.A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 6560.An owner at the helm in a peaked cap photographed for Tatler, the first season after the war, society photograph, printed on bromide for the press.Work 6527.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 war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 6423.Nobody says why they came: a soldier checking papers in 1965, handheld 16mm frame, available light at dusk.Work 6165.A chrome trimmed petrol pump with a glass cylinder, 1940, liner company brochure illustration, mirror reflection doubling the scene.Work 5964.Northern Renaissance portrait of a traffic warden's notebook inside a pocket watch, Ilford FP4.Work 5559.A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 5373.The river is late again: a tank in a caravan, Gothic cathedral portal sculpture.Work 5349.