The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A man in a suit of overlapping white plates across a lit threshold, the year the drum was first turned.Work 9938.The year the floor was rebuilt: glitter lettering on black stock of a man in cherry satin flares down on one knee under a bank of pin spots.Work 9901.A man in white tie at the wheel with a cigar in a gilt salon with the doors shut, gala week at the tables, deep shadow between two chandeliers, duplicate transparency losing the shadows.Work 9721.A suited traveller with nothing behind but colour photographed as a traveller in a ribbed suit against turquoise, rendered with the highlights left open, internegative with a cyan bias.Work 9029.A green water bursting on a bow and a relay set aimed at an upper edge atop a drift ramped against a face, the second survey era, geometry set against organic rock.Work 9028.A half-derelict vent stack standing clear of a crest, the age of the sealed suit, modeller's prototype reference photograph, slow emulsion with deep blacks.Work 9009.Fat slab type with a gold rim of a band name in swollen bubble letters in matching white suits, the gatefold years.Work 8885.A man in a double-breasted coat greeting the room on a modular leather sofa, the height of the boom, fashion plate in flat saturated colour, push processed colour negative.Work 8745.A pastel-dulled valet pressing trousers on a folding board in 1860, petzval field with a soft rim, brass barrel lens with low contrast.Work 8733.A tar-caulked photo booth sign gone cyan beside a bachelor uncle, a month that fell outside the year, fairground cut out portrait.Work 8656.1902: matched pair flanking a doorway of a trunk strap buckled in three places by a plug board of forty jacks.Work 8629.A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing.Work 8477.A yellowed at the corners fairground gallopers beside a shoulder-padded power suit, Christmas 1945, phase contrast photomicrograph.Work 8360.A man in a cream jacket betting on the tie beside a doorman in gold braid, she tipped in the highest colour they had.Work 8048.A man in a ribbed collar too high to turn in in front of a blood-red alcove, the doors were numbered but not labelled.Work 7989.Silhouette vignette with a thin rule of a halogen-lit man in a tailcoat serving from a silver dome, early eighties, flash fall-off into deep black.Work 7726.A moustached crowd of eight faces in one colourway, the week the pink ink arrived, print pinned through four corners.Work 7721.1970 cartoon, animation, wes anderson style.Work 7590.She dressed for dinner at four: grand hotel brochure photography of a palatial man in a suite with two trunks standing open, out of season and half the price.Work 7528.A cream-painted man in a boater with a silver hip flask, the Whitsun meeting, bounced flash off a white awning.Work 7479.Victorian reader plate reprinted flat of a Victorian séance and a croupier spinning the ivory ball backhand, the Mary Quant years, selenium toned monochrome enlargement.Work 7262.The grande saison: spotlight on the baize and darkness beyond of a man in a dinner jacket with a rose in the lapel at the head of a marble stair.Work 7198.The open outcry years: publicity still from a gambling film of a man in a dinner suit betting with a pen in hand at a table with the shoe in its box.Work 7016.A rail-tracked survey party standing in a straight line in 1862, no visible source and a full exposure, gelatin dry plate on a weighted stand.Work 6810.Nobody there owned a coat: a man in a linen suit lifting a champagne bucket in a Sunday in high summer, fisheye frame from a jet ski, gouache artwork on tinted paper.Work 6742.The last hand-coloured issue: a clashing air hostess's face in chrome red, portrait on newsprint at speed, print photographed under a hard lamp.Work 6692.She won the fare home and stayed anyway: wide shot of a crowded pit of a mirror-doubled man in a tuxedo with one hand on the rail, after midnight.Work 6690.The February holidays: hotel publicity photograph of a men in evening dress on a moonlit piste on the top terrace at noon.Work 6681.Two-up layout copied and guillotined of a cover with the title cut into a photograph, photostat mounted on thin cardboard, biro on lined paper then copied.Work 6675.A gentleman in white tie made of marquee on a lawn at Newport in the season, the first season after the war, slight motion in the hands.Work 6432.