The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A second-hand skimmer basket full of leaves beside a blue pool vacuum hose, the long summer of 1977, deadpan architectural photograph.Work 10298.The August number, a die-cut radio tower seen from beneath set flush left with no indent, low angle worm view of a tower.Work 10266.Quirky 1960s claymation scenes, cinematic, dance party, reproduction with the paper grain in it, scanned from a well-read copy.Work 10251.A griffin guarding a text block by a lectern in choir in late 11th century, lapis lazuli and vermilion flats, oak gall ink on ruled vellum.Work 10235.Panned photograph of a car at speed of a mechanic carrying a starter motor and a drink, five colour press sheet, dye retouching in the harbour blue.Work 10220.Microfiche frame of a Knysna turaco, fogged edge, base fog.Work 10215.A clay sailor with rolled trouser legs, the school term of 1965, model animation lit like a landscape, gate weave rocking the whole frame.Work 10152.A movie poster for a spy film set in one hotel, 1963, geometric.Work 10146.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 10129.A hard-cropped belt-driven spiral of girders rising in steel, the 1925 exposition year, gouache study on grid paper, blueprint of white lines on blue.Work 10111.A fire lookout tower near a beacon blinking in the heat, blueprint process on blue paper, matt wash worked with a badger brush, Fujichrome Provia 100F.Work 10107.A policeman's head in process cyan against a flat turquoise backdrop, cheap process print on a folded sheet, copy shot slightly off square, gloss sleeve reflecting a strip light.Work 10096.Contact print of a pressed frond of a fleshy flowering spike of a bugle, 1813, gouache on blue-grey paper.Work 10091.A Lyons Maid freezer box and a line of sun loungers, box camera snapshot, glare off wet sand.Work 10087.Complementary clash of magenta and cyan of a suited traveller with nothing behind but colour in the age of the bright corridor, gloss print with the pink left raw.Work 10057.Flat stencil print with no blending of a currency sign in nine flat colourways, screenprint on heavy white board, pencil registration marks left on.Work 10042.Late 18th century, a peacock on a flowering branch on silk gauze over a paper pattern, linen stiff with old starch, buttonhole stitch over a laid bar.Work 10024.Photogenic sheet in Prussian blue of an underside of a giant waterlily leaf with the bulb cut in half, 1847.Work 10001.Dabu mud resist print of a trawler with gulls in its rigging in the month the archive skipped, cyanotype of a field sheet.Work 9994.A grain silo against a pale sky that lasted eleven seconds, 1995, photographic analysis overlay, light struck edge of the roll.Work 9991.A face in three quarter profile in a Prague courtyard in the spring of 1968, Gevacolor cold blues.Work 9965.A gate across a footpath at a crossing in a waiting room with one bench, the season after the closure, available light in a signal cabin, watercolour wash over ruled ink.Work 9964.Salt glazed stoneware jug of a moth queen in a Crombie with a silk handkerchief, the Shanghai jazz age.Work 9957.Frost on a window from the inside, macro photography, backlit.Work 9952.A screaming two attendants flanking a geared model reduced to cyan and black only, the spring the clock was regulated, nib outline filled with even dots.Work 9894.The height of the poster years, a lattice-built parachute tower with a canopy shot from under the girders, close crop on a machine part.Work 9875.A thermally-cycled sleeping station with a curtain beside an umbilical joining a ship to a station, the age of the long orbits, concept illustration in cold greys.Work 9865.A felt beetle with cellophane wings beside a papier mache hill in the second series of 1969, poster paint reading hot in the frame.Work 9861.A googie spaceport, sectional schematic of a boiler, the corners came unstuck, tempera cracked in a fine net.Work 9840.An outrigger canoe on a turquoise shelf, the first postwar summer, airbrushed travel poster lithograph, flat ink with a visible knockout.Work 9832.