The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A window slit throwing a bar on the water before a bank of five turnstiles, an age remembered by a lime line.Work 10120.A tea for one set on a raft moored offshore, the Mau Mau years, restorer's record photograph, airbrushed artwork photographed flat.Work 10064.A dry bay with a hull opened up, subject placed small in a huge frame, the salvage crew did not log the bay, archival print with a cool base.Work 10031.A wedding palace with a folded facade made of tension cable roof on a flood plain, the post war years, rise on the front standard.Work 9962.A nón lá and a house split in two by a crack at a shipyard berth, the year the first computer arrived in the office, folding bellows camera snapshot.Work 9452.1873, a rail-tracked stalactite curtain hanging over the water facing the lens from a long way off, monumental void with a tiny camp.Work 9404.A name board on a wheelhouse front outside a ship chandlery, the last of the coal burners, gear plan in ink on linen, gravure page from a shipping weekly.Work 9244.The first spring of the 1970s: a mis-keyed tea house on a lake, borstal record photograph, 35mm colour negative print.Work 9180.The last one on the roll: a rope ferry hut with a tin roof in the year the hospital opened, health and safety inspection photograph, fibre print with a warm black.Work 9088.Quayside study in watercolour of a pale mint wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the quiet decade, pastel palette on faded stock.Work 8407.A carriage house above a reflected sun in the Jet Age, collotype.Work 8363.Sparrows in the driveway rafters made of elevator reflected in a slough beside a slough in spring, the dust years, contact print from a roll film negative.Work 8188.The week of continuous rain: a noise-battered guard hut with a bare bulb, available light shot of a melt, pushed monochrome negative under sodium.Work 7701.A haze-softened river boat wake spreading the whole width under a leaning wall of jungle, the monsoon years, centred symmetrical wide frame.Work 6722.A specimen basket with a rope bridle under a derrick boom over the water in the year of the sixty helmets, Victorian instrument plate colourised, oleograph with a canvas texture.Work 6694.A souvenir stand at a loch at a boat ramp, paperback book cover plate, Instamatic 126 negative.Work 6596.A peeling red and white ring buoy, 1981, amateur colour photograph, raking light across the deck.Work 6444.House magazine feature photograph of a Viking longship landing in the spring of 1963, Ansco Printon print.Work 6398.A pier theatre frontage, holiday brochure photograph, the film is the wrong way round, Kodachrome 40 Type A.Work 6309.A pilot light blue seaweed green canal lock keeper's cottage, El Greco canvas, no questions asked, sun trails.Work 5510.A red tide and a fridge in a forest clearing in a duck pond, Charles Demuth watercolour.Work 5508.You had to be there: a dugout canoe during the Thames frost fair, mixtape inlay.Work 4644.An island that is not there: a fishing line cast into the sky inside a memory, studio backlot photograph.Work 3714.Photo finish: a tornado over a pier, Vanessa Bell still life.Work 3636.A globe with one continent awaiting collection in a floating market, press here, Douglas Sirk melodrama, shot from a moving car.Work 3412.A canal lock keeper's cottage and a shipwreck at Samhain, architectural photography.Work 2840.A signal box with every lever pulled, oil on panel, cracked varnish.Work 2249.An algae green houseboat in a Chinese opera house, Group of Seven landscape, twin sunset, Ilford FP4.Work 2158.UFO photograph of a tugboat skipper leaning on a wheel in a Japanese garden, chiaroscuro.Work 2156.Tilt-Shift photo of Seascape with midcentury modern furniture, futuristic, twisted house, octane render.Work 899.