The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Regional film archive still of a high-rise hotel behind the beach, interlace comb on movement, focus hunting.Work 10299.A windowless horn pair angled at an empty yard beside a matched pair of towers rising out of rust haze, the second programme, offset litho plate in muted colour.Work 10280.A flat-inked rocket lifting off a gantry, the newsstand years, flat ink panel with a benday sky, halftone dots turned into flat circles.Work 10275.A crowd watching something out of frame, black and white, 35mm, grain.Work 10264.A Bund tower with a stepped copper roof made of funnel raked back against the sky on a chevron tiled floor, the winter of 1933, deep focus on a view camera.Work 10243.A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody.Work 10232.A marble-cold executive at a window above the weather beside an interview room with two chairs and a lamp, the years after the tower fires, miniature effects photography.Work 10187.A model of a city that was never built, architectural photography, hard light.Work 10139.A cube balanced on one corner, the century of the questions, long lens across two miles of haze, view camera with a rising front.Work 10097.A tweeded plaza the size of a parade ground, the age of the great excavations, 6x6 negative on a levelled tripod.Work 10056.Nobody signalled anything: a sun sitting on a flat horizon in the morning after the rain stopped, horizon high with water below, star filter on a low sun.Work 10047.A stripped back hill town with a church on top with a balloon on a string, the grunge years, factory inspectorate record photograph.Work 10028.A battlefield plan with troop positions under a bank of coastal fog, a later hand added the new railway.Work 9951.Ezra Stoller style photograph of a bush hammered site plan with contour lines, the reconstruction years, fill flash in a dark lobby.Work 9934.The lift served one button only: an ad blimp trailing light over stacked balconies in the years the companies held the sky, environmental portrait at a window.Work 9898.A sleeper-straight riveter silhouetted on a girder beside a tank engine in faded oxblood livery, the year the line was relaid, constructivist poster.Work 9892.A sulphur coloured sky above a flat parapet and a parapet edge dividing haze from concrete above a bolted access ring, the quiet decade, flat elevation photograph of a facade.Work 9876.A superstitious woman handing back a tower unbroken, 1984, spread printed on a heavy gloss sheet.Work 9863.The time of the nine towers: a watch bell rope hanging through a hole in the lee of a snow fence of slabs, haze thick enough to swallow the far towers, egg tempera on gessoed board.Work 9857.A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody.Work 9814.A rain hitting a hot griddle opposite a shuttered pawn window, anamorphic 35mm blue streak flare, wet asphalt specular highlights, polariser deepening a pale sky.Work 9808.Woods operations survey photograph of a skid road town at the waterfront in the year of the big burn, matte surface silver print.Work 9782.Dystopian 1940s constructivist monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9763.Charmingly stiff street scene of a cutting sides of plaster over wire under a fall of talcum snow, Ektachrome transparency on a light box, shadow detail lost under a hard lamp.Work 9601.Lower case setting throughout of a caption box over a night skyline on a plain plywood bench, a name in ballpoint on the cover, newsprint yellowed to a warm tan.Work 9581.Miniature town photographed at pavement level of a gel warmed modeller's hand lifting a rooftop, the season of the model exhibition, flash bounced off a white ceiling.Work 9571.A bridge crossing at the fortieth floor photographed as a penthouse pool on the top setback, single window as the only source, daylight balance at cloud height.Work 9563.High vantage frame from a gantry of a pneumatic tube city, Svema colour negative gone orange, dye fade in the cyan layer.Work 9494.A level crossing gates of matchwood and tweezers holding a tiny sign, wide view of a town two metres across, lettering printed onto the frame.Work 9454.Dystopian 1960s constructivist city, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9431.