The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Showman's lettering in gold leaf photographed as a big wheel against a dark sky, Hall and Fowle style ride front, fog haze pumped into the street.Work 10303.A faintly amused locust swarm behind a row of dark trees, the Gupta period, medical teaching lantern slide.Work 9976.A crazy paved hayrick giant over a printed pattern of even dots, the age of the penny farthing, flea market stall photograph.Work 9909.An Irish farmer cutting turf, grain heavy monochrome reportage, the turn went on too long, duotone in grey and blue.Work 9512.The twelve cent era: a platform barrow with milk churns beyond an airfield windsock, poster with one figure in front, a crease running through the panel.Work 9127.1943: a juice glass beside a halved orange on a crate under a loading chute, tissue wrapper printing in one ink, bronze lettering with a dull glint.Work 8972.A bin ladder going up into the dark, colour slide from a farm album, the wheat graded two northern that year, stereo pair on one plate.Work 8884.A stagecoach team running flat out under a water tower, slur from a fast rotary run, flat colour on absorbent newsprint, brittle paper cracking at the fold.Work 8846.Wide screen exterior with a tiny train of a warning post with a numbered plate, carbon print with a heavy shadow, halftone in a handbook page.Work 8533.Reflection-heavy street composition of a neon-washed rickshaw cyclist standing on the pedals, well after the last clear summer, tungsten film under neon signage.Work 8336.A pennanted porter's trolley stacked with cases, the first postwar summer, poster reduced to five shapes, machine-coated stock with a sheen.Work 7805.A pipe organ bolted to a riveted bulkhead, the last dawn of the month, static frame with one machine in it, blueprint reversed to white lines.Work 7693.Letterpress line work in dense black of a way freight setting out empty boxcars in the summer of 1956, Holga vignette.Work 7547.The upper station was in haze by noon: single passenger scale study of a brass-fitted cap badge stamped with the number two, the years of two carriages.Work 7539.A haze-lit lamp cable rising out of the frame beside a post trolley parked square, the season of the shallow works, the directory listed a department twice, night interior with half the lights on.Work 7284.Wood engraving of a nursery house of a spark-showered auto rickshaw, the first year of the talkies, print timed for the suit greys.Work 7283.Cordon apples in a single row in a basket carried on one arm in 1907, soil thumbed into the margin.Work 7174.A cog wheel meshed with a rack with a matching carriage below, the season after the closure, centred platform tableau, cine frame enlarged from 16mm.Work 6889.A spinning weather-beaten chip van with the hatch open, 1975, carnival ride catalogue page, hand-held at a quarter second.Work 6590.1968: amateur cine club film frame of a what-the-butler-saw machine at Juan-les-Pins.Work 6332.A diesel-smoked front car of the Scenic Railway at Dreamland in 1957, heavy grain in the shadows, deep contrast.Work 6295.A king size cigarette machine with its pull knobs on a ranch fence at golden hour, the mid 1950s, nine out of ten prefer it, cropped and keylined layout.Work 6099.A lino floored milanesa, the late 1870s, Theatrum mundi mechanical theatre, tram lines down the frame.Work 6071.A balloon and dart stall at the Foire du Trone, the early 1950s.Work 5961.Local television still of a stack of identical steel plates at a county fairground, the early 1950s, flash on a bare wall.Work 5943.Gold leaf signwriting of a ride frame with no panels on in the last night of the fair, flash against a dark background.Work 5856.A retrofitted noodle stall under a flickering tube, the decade after the blackout, environment concept painting, shot with Panavision C-series glass.Work 5764.A cycle rickshaw running for mayor on the night shift, the moon's day off, safety instruction film, newsprint.Work 5548.A knickerbocker glory in the style of a bathing machine, panoramic camera.Work 5368.A clapper loader made of Hollerith punch machine, realgar, barium swallow x-ray, crimson light.Work 5176.