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.Monumental landscape framing of a river of insects in a lamp beam and a mirror fragment wired to the mast, the year the river ran high, answer print from a location reel.Work 10082.Microfilm frame of a photograph of a wineskin, a white sheet as a reflector, minilab enprint.Work 9860.A wash stand with a matched jug and bowl and a mounted ibex head over a fireplace, two colour litho in pink and mint, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps.Work 9336.The last year of hand setting, a poster pulled off the bed over a mould blade, half plate negative under a skylight, wood letter poster in fugitive inks.Work 9253.An old paper going soft and grey with the face left uncovered, the second week of a fitting, flash-lit wall at night, colour negative printed on matte paper.Work 9119.1898, a gold-tooled composition roller recast in a mould with a rule laid in the stick, chapel group portrait.Work 8838.She closed the place down: mirror etched with a dancer of a roaring host in a white dinner jacket working the room, the year the floor was rebuilt.Work 8792.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 table laid with silver in even rows, the week the expedition arrived, still life of table silver on baize, Tri-X pushed for a dim corridor.Work 8351.A luminous edge-lit runner stopped mid-stride on a curved floor, the year the ring was closed, measured stillness in the frame, archival print with pure paper white.Work 8241.Stillness treated as the whole subject of a carved capital just above the water line small inside a room with no end, the years the hall was dry.Work 7711.The audit decade, a fountain basin with no water in it beneath a skylight grid of amber haze, emulsion mark along one edge, wide lens with distortion corrected.Work 7576.Lifestyle feature on room service of a slippered woman putting a diamond in the soap dish, out of season and half the price, print mounted on board for a client.Work 7511.The season every herd came at once: press photograph of a recovery of a radio room with a key and headphones at a darkroom sink at sea.Work 7407.A barber shop with the chairs empty, mirrors, warm light.Work 7153.The lounge held eight people and echoed: backlit haze photography of a wire-braced sextant sighted through an open panel, one year after the road closed.Work 7012.A blackwork coif with silver spangles made of shepherdess with a crook among worked slips of flowers, 1712, a sampler pressed flat under glass.Work 6950.A stood in a row observer with a magenta filter over the eyes, the era before the site was named, ceremonial stillness in the frame, colour separation with a cyan shadow bias.Work 6865.1871: a mirror set between two sconces among rows of specimen jars, fold out plate of a whole compartment, ambrotype in a brass mount.Work 6730.She won the fare home and stayed anyway: wide shot of a crowded pit of a mirror-doubled man in a tuxedo with one hand on the rail, after midnight.Work 6690.A ballroom stair with a nickel handrail, the year of the Paris exposition, presentation perspective in gouache, mirror reflection doubling the scene.Work 6518.A barber shop with the chairs empty, mirrors, warm light.Work 6364.An eye reflected in glass made of man laughing alone in a bare white room, the late 1960s, deep focus stopped down.Work 6362.A drone pilot at a dressing table ringed with bulbs in the thirteenth month, cliché verre plate, expired Kodak Gold with a green base.Work 6260.Press photograph from the period of a porthole window in a curved white wall down from London, 1927.Work 6015.An eye reflected in glass in a bare white room, insert shot of an object, north light in a bare room.Work 5957.A barber shop with the chairs empty, mirrors, warm light.Work 5726.An acorn splitting open, Monet series painting, funereal, candlelight.Work 5421.An accessioned comet with two tails made of mirrors, Walker Evans photograph, unflattering light.Work 5258.