The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A tobacco advert with a magenta ghost on a pinboard of overlapping notices, offset print with dot gain in the shadows, dot gain swallowing the shadow detail.Work 10287.A lorry driver eating at a truck stop along a rope walk, the early 1870s.Work 10184.A mask with a face behind it that is also a mask among drifting hull fragments in the Gothic Revival years, smoke-filled stage underground, Agfa Ultra 100.Work 9596.A pellet plant balling drum and a blast furnace with a bustle pipe, stereograph of a rolling mill, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss.Work 9462.The summer nobody went home: colour supplement travel feature of a man in a straw trilby at the wheel of a tender at the rail of a corniche road.Work 8853.A pinned timekeeper with a stopwatch at the rail, New Year 1981, Plus-X on sheet film.Work 8631.An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph.Work 8472.An unamplified stage after a set with smoke still up past the end of the set, the spring of 1984, gig poster pasted and torn.Work 8129.A figure in profile with a raised arm, overprint of red over black halftone, the press was hand-fed, uncoated stock with a rough tooth.Work 7934.A cream-painted man in a boater with a silver hip flask, the Whitsun meeting, bounced flash off a white awning.Work 7479.Grid of the same stencil in new inks of a fisherman mending a net, pochoir with hand cut stencils, drip run down from the top edge.Work 7402.A face half in shadow and half in magenta half in magenta and half in dark, the turn of the 1970s, saturated unnatural colour still, halation around a burning flare.Work 7345.A couple arguing over a kitchen table in breathing apparatus in smoke in a reprint nobody asked for, halftone dots turned into flat circles.Work 7308.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.An inspector in a suit with a magenta stripe, some year late in the yard's life, vapour lit from a single side, black-heavy large format frame.Work 6754.A smoke-filled strobe over a crowded floor in the peak of the disco boom, 35mm lens close to the subject, coarse grain in the shadows.Work 5851.Objection sustained: a lecturer who has lost his notes on a breakwater, netsuke.Work 5562.A scribbled-on sidehill gouger listening at a door, Abanindranath Tagore wash painting, show through.Work 5500.Stage photography of a bee as a secretary on a works outing, black border print.Work 5339.A crossword solver chewing a pencil made of punk with a safety pin earring, depression-era, Akseli Gallen-Kallela canvas, theatre ghost light.Work 5282.A souvenir spoon made of rooster as a town crier, edwardian, arcade attract mode, off register printing.Work 5206.An unloved ferry cancelled by fog in a Hong Kong dim sum hall, boro textile, tallow candle, museum quality.Work 5122.A black pudding in a tiny hat during an air raid, the version from the dream, Horace Pippin painting, Agfa Vista 200.Work 5107.A detailed and award winning photo of chemistry equipment, studio portrait, hard light.Work 5046.An aloof spectroscope at the end of a Friday, Daumier caricature painting, torch through fog.Work 4932.A market street at its busiest in a beekeeper suit at the edge of the desert, catalogue number unknown, Tanjore painting, security monitor quad.Work 4492.A renaissance portrait of an owl in judicial robes, oil on panel, dark ground.Work 4453.A magician palming a coin, collotype, condemned, light through parchment.Work 4349.A class photo with one child blurred with a mortgage during a minute's silence, written in steam, passport photo, freezing fog.Work 3750.Vintage cigarette ad on a microscope slide, 8k, award-winning photograph.Work 3716.