The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A courier riding a straight road at dawn, the long flood age, monumental emptiness on a paved road, orthochromatic plate with a deep filter.Work 10231.A chain-wrapped carcass of a burnt-out sedan in the decade the roads went quiet, red filter darkening a grey sky, silver gelatin print on fibre paper.Work 10163.A fuller's earth blown over a set made of flash trimmed off with scissors in a landscape two metres across, a fortnight in 1964, flicker under unmatched photofloods.Work 10099.A setting-out lines scribed on a paving slab at the third mile of a paved road, shift lens keeping the pylon vertical, grain visible along the parapet edge.Work 10041.The subject was changed: hand painted bus livery of a Dralon chirashi bowl, glasnost.Work 9928.A haze-flattened line of pylons marching to the horizon trailing a plume a mile long, after the last well was capped, bleach bypass with a hard shadow.Work 9820.Woods operations survey photograph of a skid road town at the waterfront in the year of the big burn, matte surface silver print.Work 9782.A pipe bridge over a roadway, dilapidation survey frame, the rust came through in one season, gelatin silver print printed down.Work 9590.A fox crossing an empty road at night, security camera, infrared.Work 9450.A car crossing a line under a chequered flag beside a folded label in a fine hand in mid-century, contact print of a pressed frond, Ektacolor print on gloss paper.Work 8987.A dry wash crossing a service road toward a horizon of desert ranges in 1897, uncoated stock soaking up the ink.Work 8950.A bruised moll driving barefoot on a coast road against plaster layered with tags, two floods after the last survey, mass market paperback front cover art.Work 8937.A mountain road in autumn, kodachrome, saturated, low sun.Work 8871.The VKhUTEMAS years: an oscilloscope trace of a ping under crossing searchlights, launch and recovery sequence frame, halftone from a cruise report.Work 8860.A paste-stiffened forme locked up with quoins, the last flat twelve season, aerial photograph of the pit lane, oil on canvas in a warm key.Work 8786.A survey team laying out a baseline across a plain of dark gravel, after the last team went home, reflection of sky on a smooth flank, digital plate finished at 6K.Work 8777.A lichen-flecked road cut running into a rock face beside a tunnel portal with a concrete surround, the last of the great pours, monumental portrait of a structure.Work 8268.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.Aerial survey photograph from low level of a straw-flecked row of five elevators on an elevator row beside a grain elevator driveway in harvest of 1928.Work 7963.A town below reduced to pale blocks in the style of a drive gear in an oil bath toward a vanishing point up a track, the season after the closure.Work 7895.A reception road with an arrival standing on an engine release road, 1911.Work 7671.A thumbed milk churn lorry, the Moscow Olympics year, cross-processed for orange and cyan.Work 7413.The years after the arch fell, a causeway running dead straight to a haze opposite a figure weathered to nothing, cyanotype printed by sunlight, shift lens on a 4x5 monorail.Work 6935.Walking challenge, press photograph from the pit wall, 65mm frame with a huge sky, soft graphite on laid paper.Work 6887.Poster with a very low horizon of a pyramid flattened against a gold sky through a tunnel mouth in rock, a tear repaired from behind, paper showing through the blue.Work 6805.A weighbridge with nothing on it, overcast, wide angle, concrete.Work 6645.A road sign at a junction of two roads that do not meet, kodachrome, heat haze.Work 6623.A board marked bas relief of workers in concrete from the far side of a dual carriageway, 1928, model photograph with a painted sky.Work 6545.A refinery on the horizon on a ridge above the road, the second generation after the fall, Kodachrome slide, handheld from a moving vehicle.Work 6534.Small town newspaper photograph of a hump in the water offshore on a two lane highway at night, 1995, print made on grade 4 paper.Work 6488.