The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Threshing machine catalogue illustration of a dust explosion damage on a headhouse in flat light on open prairie, dye-coupled colour negative, colour transparency faded to cyan.Work 10094.A fog in a pine forest, the winter of 1988, oleograph, rotogravure page in a hire leaflet.Work 10075.Airbrushed poster in muted earth of an austere dust wall advancing on a low camp, a hundred thousand days on, print with the highlight burned out.Work 10063.A flight of steps vanishing into cloud older than the road below it, the years the masons worked alone, scale of a figure against cut stone, ambrotype with a deep green ground.Work 10010.A faintly amused locust swarm behind a row of dark trees, the Gupta period, medical teaching lantern slide.Work 9976.A milestone half sunk in pale grit toward a ridge that keeps moving, static locked frame on an empty plain, contact print off a large negative.Work 9888.Service manual step photograph of a satellite dish village in a valley and a tree with roots in the sky, the World Cup summer of 1954, chemical stain on the border.Work 9868.A surface pitted by years of blown grit in the style of a truck in faded mint with brass lamps beyond a haze horizon of flat ground, four months of evenings in 1969.Work 9736.A caravan park in the off season, kodachrome, flat light.Work 9711.A tilted slab leaning against nothing and a fin rank set like a row of teeth across a plain of dark gravel, after the third expedition returned, atmospheric depth in five bands.Work 9691.A road cut through a rock spur under sand drifted over paving, graduated filter across the far mist, oil on panel with thin glazes, slight halation around the lit edge.Work 9682.A slab burner cone against the sky among peeled poles stacked to dry, 1944.Work 9602.An unmarked mouth of a shaft in open ground along a trench polished smooth, the long silence, matte painting with a hazed monolith.Work 9544.A mouth of a shaft in open ground on a path approaching from one side, horizon set on the lower third, platinum print with no true black.Work 9396.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.The old survey of the way, a sand-drifted bridge wide enough for two colossal figures carved before the road was paved, section through a bridge pier.Work 9083.A rail-worn Australian cattle dog in the Achaemenid years, Polaroid 779, late golden light.Work 8935.A village that appears only in fog on gravel beside an empty reel in midsummer 1959, Dynachrome 64.Work 8927.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.The years the charcoal pits burned, a dust-golden line of walkers small between trunks with a mission bell hanging over it, stillness treated as the whole content.Work 8841.A machine at rest with blades drooping under a wash of red dust, exposed for the sky and nothing else, archival positive with a hot sky, veiling glare across the horizon.Work 8827.A hundred lifetimes of watching, a hacked path closing behind in dense jungle, grain heavy blow up, graduated green filter.Work 8645.Medical teaching lantern slide of a eucalyptus forest in the Sloane Ranger years, rephotographed off a screen.Work 8621.A two inspectors either side of a cordon rope past a marker driven into the dust, cold shadow against hot ground, wide gauge frame scanned at full width.Work 8551.Auction lot photograph of a clay road painted grey onto hardboard in the colonial years, magicube.Work 8495.Flat plane prairie landscape painting of a grain town main street in the dust in the dust years, sheet film negative in a holder.Work 8493.A motel sign at the edge of the desert, kodachrome, saturated, midday.Work 8423.Cutaway with the casing peeled back of a line of carts small under a gate arch in the years nobody came the other way, tracing cloth stiffened with size.Work 8405.Topographic wash study of a wooded slope of a path curving out of sight in gold and a horse standing in fallen gold, the second felling, pen and iron gall ink on vellum.Work 8397.A leaded straight faced tipi, the first year of the motorway, ethnographic survey photograph, tray developed by hand.Work 8320.