The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An old fashioned glass sweating on a coaster and a highball with the bubbles still climbing in a bachelor apartment, the Eisenhower years, airbrushed advertising illustration.Work 10102.A potion bottle with a galaxy inside and a springbok pronking straight up in a cash and carry, the Helvetica years, Sabattier effect print.Work 10033.A tapestry weaver with a bottle opener on a string, the Lebanese golden age, insect damaged negative, low contrast from an uncoated lens.Work 10027.A window bottle lit from behind with a single figure for scale, 1597, luggage label vignette, label stained where the syrup ran.Work 9778.A trapeze artist's face in hot yellow in the style of a barman's head in poison lime over a poster pasted to a wall, a commission paid in advance.Work 9502.A bottle of tonic in the style of a circus of shadows against a starred blue sky, the Futurist years.Work 8433.The last summer of steam: an ash-dusted driver oiling round with a can, shed roster record snapshot, silver gelatin contact print.Work 8388.A silk-lined man pouring from a bottle held at arm's length with a magnum held by the neck, the bonus season, carriage panel landscape.Work 8376.A stage brace propped behind a flat before a painted village street, his nose was a bottle top all along.Work 8144.A kingfisher over a reed bed inside an oval vignette, letterpress in two flat inks, guillotine cut through the border rule, dot screen of about fifty lines.Work 8139.The barman ran out of ice by three: society page colour photograph of an unpeopled model of a building inside a larger building, the middle term.Work 8021.A traveller with both hands spread against light and a suited figure against a bar of saturated pink, wide gauge abstraction with a figure, print with the streaks rendered sharp.Work 7986.Long lens compression along a bore of a stolen power tapped from a bus bar, cool fluorescent against warm lamplight, industrial colour negative under strip light.Work 7709.Crude woodcut coloured by a reader of a collodion bottle with a brush in it, sheet browned where a shelf touched it, salt print through a thin negative.Work 7569.The autumn of 1962, a matchbook tiled across a grid toward the only water for fifty miles, trade weekly page on matt stock, scanned from a label in an album.Work 7440.A tubular railway poster in one typeface on a shelf of clear glass, the Basel school years, the stand was built in three days, New Typography layout.Work 7279.A crown glass with a bullion centre counted from the shed as road two, 1867, inventory plate of numbered fittings, cibachrome with a dense black.Work 7266.A poisonous bottle marked POISON in relief glass in the window of a chemist's shop, 1664, a customer asked for it by name, gouache on a dark prepared ground.Work 6715.A glass of whisky on a case file on flat farmland, a night in the coming century.Work 6489.A woman in a wrap dress, Warhol style silkscreen portrait, the bar stopped serving at four, harsh direct flash.Work 6475.Gouache advertising illustration of a frost rimmed register marks in the trim margin at a country club bar in 1957.Work 6326.Liner company brochure illustration of a cocktail bar with a backlit onyx panel and a barber pole beside a chrome doorframe, 1925, perspective corrected verticals.Work 6245.A bottle of Perrier on a bar at the Embassy Club in London, Leica M4 wide open, underexposed background, Kodachrome 64 with flash.Work 6234.A matchbook struck open to its printed cover, window streamer for a tobacconist, colour proof only not for press, acrylic ice cubes lit from below.Work 6011.Oil painting on board of a row of optics behind a bar, rim light through steam, smoke in the beam of a lamp.Work 5710.The sirens were a test: a bird bath inside a vending machine, Veronese banquet painting.Work 5678.An airship hangar made of beer garden, toothless, southern face jug, rolling shutter.Work 5623.An industrious magic set in a hotel for insects, 1970s liquor ad, sunrise glare, Kodak Portra 400.Work 5592.A speakeasy bartender made of fireman sliding down a pole, ochre, wire photo, dashboard glow.Work 5462.Soft drink advertisement of a glass bottle with a marble stopper at ten to midnight, fingerprinted negative.Work 5324.