The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A stone-floored potting shed with seedlings on every sill past a raft of floating logs, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the third one from the left, Japanese ema votive plaque.Work 10284.A whip stitched half height cottage at the back of the stage, the autumn term of 1971, archive transfer with the head splice kept.Work 10263.A sectional model cut open on a housing estate walkway, the year before demolition, staged interior photograph, raking light across board marks.Work 10250.A thread frayed men's house on a wet tarmac, the Palaiologan years, Ghanaian hand painted film poster.Work 10115.The summer of 1976: a crowded beach at high tide outside a bathing cabin, black and white press photograph, orange fade of an old print.Work 10054.Frame from a hotel promotional film of a quay with numbered warehouses beneath a scale of fathoms, print laid down on linen with cloth hinges, sheet with an old library label at a corner.Work 10053.Slow pan across a model village of a clay lamp post bent slightly to the left beside a well with a string bucket, one long afternoon in 1969, archive copy with a splice at the head.Work 10048.A chimney stack tapering to a rim on a pavilion's outside stair, registration out by two millimetres, photographed flat in even light, scalpel edge showing on a cut-out.Work 10000.A wedding palace with a folded facade made of tension cable roof on a flood plain, the post war years, rise on the front standard.Work 9962.A gone green Ndebele painted house beside a peacock chair, the Rhodesian UDI years, process plate for a background.Work 9908.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.Service manual step photograph of a satellite dish village in a valley and a tree with roots in the sky, the World Cup summer of 1954, chemical stain on the border.Work 9868.A trench cover slab lifted aside made of chainlink fence with a bowed top rail past a gatehouse window grille, the night the yard lamps stayed on, 6x7 negative on a night tripod frame.Work 9848.A vegetable garden overrun by zucchini at the foot of a cut bank in the Chola years, fast monochrome film at 400 speed.Work 9794.A crowd on a hotel roof with binoculars beside a lap board on the wall, glossy magazine double page spread, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster.Work 9752.A doilied Carpenter Gothic cottage, the Fauve years, miniature effects unit still, 126 Verichrome Pan.Work 9751.A tin roofed shed at the edge of a strip and a tie down rope on a blade tip in the short tropical dawn, the first years of the 1970s, sun in frame with heavy flare.Work 9656.A cloisonné hairpin and a Quaker meeting house, long lens shot from the gallery window, flaking emulsion.Work 9647.The Dessau years, an axonometric of a small house along a band of ribbon windows, negative print reversing the tones, hand-set type with tight spacing.Work 9567.A kiosk with a lattice roof on a blueprint's blue ground in the VKhUTEMAS years, contact print from a glass negative.Work 9562.Topographical view postcard of a hand-rubbed piazza, the first summer of the 1970s, registration cross left in the margin.Work 9516.The third crossing season: a violet-rimmed traveller suspended with the arms folded, luminous plane treated as architecture, wide frame with the flare left uncleaned.Work 9460.A level crossing gates of matchwood and tweezers holding a tiny sign, wide view of a town two metres across, lettering printed onto the frame.Work 9454.A nón lá and a house split in two by a crack at a shipyard berth, the year the first computer arrived in the office, folding bellows camera snapshot.Work 9452.A crate-nailed palm avenue leading to a house against a sky of graded cobalt, 1927, stipple shading on fruit skin.Work 9391.A party stopped in a perfect row on the stairs of a walk-up, a week of flat white weather, painted wrapper for a hardback, flat proof before the black went down.Work 9294.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.The age of the walking routes, a dead shrub holding a scrap of cloth beneath a sky bleached to bone white, flare cutting across the whole frame, glass plate with a dusty emulsion.Work 9195.The first spring of the 1970s: a mis-keyed tea house on a lake, borstal record photograph, 35mm colour negative print.Work 9180.A rancho gate of peeled poles against a sky of graded cobalt, the last season before cartons, sign painter's shaded capitals, chalk price wiped from the surface.Work 9164.