The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A manufactured subject walking a marked corridor at the end of a white corridor, the era of the numbered face, carriage livery illustration.Work 10282.Saddle between two peaks in a mosque courtyard, the spring of 1958, abattoir inspection photograph, hand-tinted in two soft washes.Work 10260.Costume record for a wardrobe archive of a figure lit flat and standing square on stitched by hand over three weeks, a summer spent indoors.Work 10257.An alien shaped like a tall hat at a roadhouse with boarded windows, platinum print warmth, Ektachrome 64 on a white sweep, the sun in the frame.Work 10237.Cross processed colour frame of a dust turning inside a light beam small under a closed canopy, one long green afternoon.Work 10222.A marble square worn hollow at a doorway too grand for the four guests in it, the last full season, haze filled lobby held perfectly level, chromolitho in pink mint and ochre.Work 10214.A tiled fountain with a brass spout on an uncut sheet of six, the label was kept and the fruit eaten.Work 10185.Keres above a flooded stone tank in the age of the pager, photogravure on plate paper.Work 10157.A rare hotel facade of dusty pink stucco onto a baize covered polishing table, 1824, still life of table silver on baize.Work 10150.A movie poster for a spy film set in one hotel, 1963, geometric.Work 10146.An elevator operator with a slack jaw, the turn of the 1970s, comprehensive layout in marker, magenta out of register by a hair.Work 10077.An air hostess pointing to an exit with the sound word lettered across it, the hundredth issue, dotted illustration with no grey in it, two flats meeting with a white gap.Work 10060.Complementary clash of magenta and cyan of a suited traveller with nothing behind but colour in the age of the bright corridor, gloss print with the pink left raw.Work 10057.A dragon swallowing its own tail amid the columns of a canon arch in around 1320, uterine vellum of great thinness.Work 10043.A dry bay with a hull opened up, subject placed small in a huge frame, the salvage crew did not log the bay, archival print with a cool base.Work 10031.Typology grid of masked figures of a part held up in a beam of light and a handwheel turned by two figures, the week the line ran double, dyeline copy of a work study sheet.Work 10014.Atmospheric depth in five bands of a stencilled numeral two metres tall in the shade of an undercroft, long after the architects left, pigment print on a baryta surface.Work 10013.The Bauhaus years: Kütahya tile of a shell keep before a wall the colour of wet clay.Work 10008.A cloth tied around a stone pillar made of incense smoke standing in a doorway past an inscription filled with moss, the middle of the century, Agfachrome warm on tanned skin.Work 9975.A suited figure silhouetted in a bright hatch inside a berth the width of a body in the white decade, gloss print on heavy paper.Work 9972.A face in three quarter profile in a Prague courtyard in the spring of 1968, Gevacolor cold blues.Work 9965.A pipe run bracketed along a curved wall in the style of a shoal of fish crossing a lit window over a manifold of matched wheels, 1858.Work 9949.Silver gelatin contact print of a mugshot in profile at a table beside the bandstand, the mid 1940s, shaft of light through a blind.Work 9939.A man in a suit of overlapping white plates across a lit threshold, the year the drum was first turned.Work 9938.A gone green Ndebele painted house beside a peacock chair, the Rhodesian UDI years, process plate for a background.Work 9908.A granite-cut lintel carved with nine concentric rings with the chain still hanging across, a season when no courier came, matte painting of a beacon chain.Work 9890.An escalator ribbon inside a glass flank along a corridor of identical doors, monolithic forms in flat light, sepia warmth in the highlights.Work 9866.A felt beetle with cellophane wings beside a papier mache hill in the second series of 1969, poster paint reading hot in the frame.Work 9861.Ministry of information photograph of an office junior carrying a tray of cups on a rug in front of the set, Dynachrome 25, a rescreened halftone.Work 9855.A haze layers stacked to the horizon beside a machine at rest, arc lamp as a stand in sun, graduated violet over the sky, bloom spreading off a bright disc.Work 9828.