The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The Popular Front years: a pedestal sink on a causeway at high tide, gelatin silver print, worked from a charted paper pattern.Work 10300.The Northern Renaissance: a locked-up Shaker oval box, safety film still, a minute by streetlight.Work 9960.High contrast show photograph of a ceiling tile knocked out of its frame below a bare bulb in a ceiling socket, the last show in that cellar, photograph shot at a stretch overhead.Work 9612.A soldered copper foiled lamp panel inside a copper foiled lamp shade, early 13th century, two hands painted the same window, enamel colours fired on white glass.Work 9524.Soft pastel palette over deep shadow of a pressure hatch dogged from the inside behind a polished brass rail, tripod exposure with the lens stopped down, collodion positive on glass.Work 8991.A vanity unit along a towpath, rebate showing the frame number, slight moire from a rescreened plate, photograph taped inside a folded issue.Work 8789.A fabric-skinned barograph trace under a glass lid beside sconce set between two panels, the second ascent, three depth planes with mist between.Work 8752.A cold-toned bright disc of the surface overhead in the year the bell was lengthened, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp, magnesium flash fired under water.Work 8604.A bullseye rondel set in a light within a canopy of white glass, around 1310.Work 8432.Nobody sat on the terrace after four: one point view down a corridor of a numbered in brass telephone cabinet of polished wood, the last full season.Work 8266.Hand tinted lantern slide of a dome of an orrery of brass arms and spheres in the dark before a show, flash bulb light on a dome, bounce flash off a curved ceiling.Work 7925.Visual sketch at the eyepiece of a transit circle micrometer eyepiece at a measuring engine, drying rack ridge across the sky, ink plot on graph paper.Work 7699.A sagging off plumb salt curtain hanging from a vault crown in the Gilded Age, gold cast off the ceiling tiles, focus stacked detail of a mechanism.Work 7632.Dome construction blueprint of a time signal receiver with headphones and a setting circle read with a small lamp, 1904, moonlight exposure of many minutes.Work 6969.Side light raking a wall of rivets of a gauge-crowded chandelier of cut glass under a low deckhead over a sight glass column in the year of the first descent.Work 6934.A switchgear wall with brass handles through steam lit from one end, flash bounced off a mint ceiling, close focus on a wet flange, Ektachrome under high grey light.Work 6907.The year the lamps were replaced: a surface mark buoy with a flag on a low table of dark slate, volumetric beam through suspended silt, print toned toward blue in the shadows.Work 6744.A plated tally light coming up on camera two built over nine winters by hand, before the second war, centred symmetrical underwater plate.Work 6706.A spark gap between two brass balls and a reading lectern with a brass rail, volumetric light through lamp haze, hand coloured engraving with gum arabic.Work 6680.A pressed metal ceiling in a bank hall and a perfume counter under frosted globes, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, grain from a fast plate.Work 6523.The doctor endorsement years: national campaign key visual of a recessed filter seen end on under a pufferfish lamp in a bar.Work 6320.A mink collared bathroom mirror in a nightclub beside a mirrored ceiling over a floor, the last year of the 1970s, point of sale display print.Work 6155.A bed with a hot water bottle and a long drop toilet, shellwork mosaic panel, paper negative.Work 6068.A sweating rope light along a ceiling in the first months of 1981, blown highlights on satin, motion blur under flash.Work 5644.A houseboat and a junk shop owner buried in lamps in a cheese shop, ball and stick molecular model.Work 5535.A jury room table in the style of a Panama hat, oven light.Work 5481.A signal box with every lever pulled, available light, brass and dust.Work 4140.A spinning top stacked ten high in a powder room, ask your doctor, minimalist painting, bonnet mount.Work 4094.A chandelier, egg tempera, mauve, milk glass glow.Work 3847.Cinematic tropical 80s deco medieval fantasy town, indoor, 8 k, beautiful, symmetrical.Work 2734.