The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A wildflower meadow in the Alps inside the back cover, the film is the wrong way round.Work 10285.A line walked into a field of grass left to weather, 1984, measured site plan, bare bulb in a basement.Work 10262.A wind-swollen knot being pulled down onto a frame beside a load stacked head high, forty days out from the last market, the wind combed the flank flat again, matte painting with a live column in it.Work 10226.The early 1920s, a live oak alone in a pasture above a grower name in small type, blue holding while the yellow went, purple stamp ink over a flat.Work 10073.Sky heavy widescreen frame of a drum of diesel with a hand pump, bounced light off white canvas, long lens with heavy compression.Work 10034.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 grain silo against a pale sky that lasted eleven seconds, 1995, photographic analysis overlay, light struck edge of the roll.Work 9991.An over-exposed lawn chair sunk in the grass, the off season, chrome postcard, slight barrel distortion.Work 9981.A spray-flecked orange grove with a white farmhouse, the first postwar summer, poster proof with registration marks, poster paint up to a ruled edge.Work 9904.It burnt on a Sunday morning: a sample pan of hard red wheat in the winter after the crop failed, oblique aerial photograph of a town, emulsion scratched along the edge.Work 9756.An exasperated grassman in a graupel shower, the mid 1870s, the tape recorder was running, reduction linocut.Work 9730.Dystopian 1960s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9693.A dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze.Work 9685.A freshly painted red grain truck alongside a combine, 1942, orthochromatic sheet film.Work 9665.A thunderhead above a dry range in the style of a fig split to show the seeds against a sky of graded blue, the last season before cartons.Work 9646.A lacrosse stick, poster style label with three flats, the one who did not stay, Kodak Panatomic-X 32.Work 9577.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.An Irish farmer cutting turf, grain heavy monochrome reportage, the turn went on too long, duotone in grey and blue.Work 9512.A marshaller's long shadow on a strip against a violet dawn, the week of low sun, scale study of machine and sun, reversal stock exposed for the sky.Work 9500.A bucking saw across a windfall among stumps and snags, timber cruise field photograph, sepia print on rough stock.Work 9470.An eye held open in a wash of orange made of hand reaching into a curtain of streaks within a field of colour and no object, the closing stretch of the crossing, reversal film with hard colour edges.Work 9428.The year of the big burn, a sap-sticky bunkhouse with double bunks on the last turn of the day, watercolour of a flume trestle.Work 9415.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.A self-propelled combine in tall wheat and an elevator fire at night, farm survey photograph, scan taken from an original negative.Work 9363.An eye enormous in a field of turquoise behind a field of light with no edge, beam made visible without any haze, print holding detail only in the suit.Work 9286.The price on the board was wrong: a binder cutting a headland in the first week of threshing, photo essay on a wheat town, yellow filter over a blue sky.Work 9241.Colour negative landscape with dense green of an ash plain with a single set of prints dyed the yellow of sulphur crust, an autumn of low pressure.Work 9240.A disc the width of a small town photographed as an umm ali, oscillograph trace photograph, oil glaze over a grey ground.Work 9153.Dystopian 1980s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9116.Dystopian 1960s national monument, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9105.