The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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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.A bagel with a cloud of cream cheese after the wind dropped to nothing, signal station photograph, cold-toned print in a blue grey.Work 10141.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 dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze.Work 9685.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.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.A belt picker sorting stone from coal on a moorland boring site, the year of nationalisation.Work 9087.A mission-belled flat horizon with one machine on it beside a smoke going flat in the rotor wash, the short season of clear mornings, banded sky colour treatment.Work 8980.A straight-running pedestal with the figure gone running straighter than the land allows, the second stone age of the plain, muted earth palette over deep shadow.Work 8840.A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour.Work 8411.Midwinter on warm ground: a procession of one across black ground through a bank of low vapour, still frame with nothing moving but steam, negative that kept its green in the scan.Work 8329.The year the strip was cut, a grass-beaten mirrored visor with the sun in it cutting into a sodium disc, symmetrical sunrise framing.Work 8159.A slow-drifting figure standing dead centre of a colour field beside a sheet of vertical streaks, the age of the lone passenger, ultra-wide frame with no horizon.Work 8004.Pumpkin carving of a prairie with a grain elevator on the horizon beneath an arch spanning a valley, the Brandt years, highlight held in a white felt hood.Work 7923.Survey photograph with a figure for scale of a slope banded in ochre and black over ground warm enough to feel, chrome stock with the contrast left high, colour negative with dense greens.Work 7790.A route cairn with a rag tied to it carrying water for four more days, the age when a crest was a road, tight crop on four overlapping corners, flyer folded in four in a pocket.Work 7631.A half-visible line of stones running out of frame dwarfed by the plain it sits in, the last years of the overland crossing, measured elevation of a well head.Work 7140.A dry watercourse with no bank left beyond the edge of the mapped route, silver gelatin print toned copper, negative with grit marks in the sky, archival pigment print on rag paper.Work 7138.Silhouetted tree against a graded sky of a roadrunner on hard ground with the grade stencilled beside it, 1920.Work 7048.Storm light across a bare granite face of an abandonment plan rolled in a tube in an age when the gate still held, twenty second exposure on a stone tripod.Work 6948.The third summer of the survey: a wind-shaped far ridge reduced to a grey suggestion, symmetrical composition on a flat horizon, mechanical tint laid over a flat.Work 6808.A sky with two horizons against the curve of a fuel tank in the hour before the light changed, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster.Work 6773.A candidate on a campaign bus on a safari lodge veranda, New Year 1955.Work 6445.An eel catcher in a petrified forest, argyrotype, Kentmere 400.Work 6325.A dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze.Work 5930.A storm arriving over a flat landscape, cinematic, beautiful.Work 5499.Secretly relieved: an exhibition of a single raindrop over a smoky valley, Frederic Remington western scene.Work 5360.A storm arriving over a flat landscape, long exposure, dark sky.Work 5359.A dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze.Work 5257.A solar prominence and a chaparral hillside after the show, Turkish Karagoz shadow play.Work 5161.