The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A cooling tower being demolished, the winter of 1972, wet plate collodion negative, wet collodion glass plate.Work 10242.A saw kerf full of sawdust, the last season of steam yarding, mill town newspaper photograph, monochrome with no sky detail.Work 10118.The upper floors were never opened: competition illustration in flat wash of an implacable cooling stack venting into dry air, the fourth construction decade.Work 9959.The boom before the strike: a pellet plant balling drum in oil mist beside a cold mill, constructivist low angle view, ferrotyped print with a hard gloss.Work 9945.An air-conditioned stream of lights between vertical walls beside a cooling stack venting heat, the decade of the vertical franchise, human scale figure for reference.Work 8806.Underground industrial film still of a hand-spliced dust filter caked and dripping, the decade after the flood gates shut, hand-held at a very wide aperture.Work 8684.The speedboat years: a hobnailed coal face measured with a yardstick, aerial oblique of a colliery, glass plate negative with flash burn.Work 8620.A winder drum with wound rope inside the winding engine house, 1911, mining engineering journal plate, two colour offset print.Work 7921.A cooling tower plumes at dawn with the tap stream running, the last full order book, high vantage view from a crane, silver print with a burned in sky.Work 7610.A shearer cutting a web of coal photographed as a back lane of a colliery row, stringer's frame for a local paper, 5x4 sheet film in a press camera.Work 7216.An arc furnace with three electrodes in the fettling shop in noise, industrial safety film still, spot varnish over a black plate.Work 7195.An oppressive fin rising from a gravel plain toward a mass that never comes closer, after the third expedition returned, the base went deeper than the sounding, scale read only by a human speck.Work 7102.Perspective corrected photograph of a cooling tower's hyperboloid throat and a construction hoarding with a rendering, 1928, 35mm black and white negative.Work 6582.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.A cooling tower in reinforced concrete above a river valley, charcoal study of a mass, Portra 160 negative.Work 6521.The end of the age of engines, a dust-caked sentry on a water tower platform a day out from the refinery, aerial photograph.Work 6413.Miniature set photograph of a salt crust cracked into plates and a rig with exhaust stacks either side, the last summer of the refineries, neutral density graduated filter.Work 6005.The Korean War years: hard ground etching of a turf house beside a cooling tower.Work 5972.A pulp magazine cover with a giant machine in a reactor hall in 1937, newspaper strip panel, floodlit marquee at night.Work 5904.A silkie chicken and a power station cooling tower in 1969 at a drive-in, Adoration of the Magi panel.Work 5641.Painted film poster of a factory model with mismatched eyes in the decade of the off-world lotteries, symmetrical elevation on axis.Work 5625.A jumbo jet in a back garden and an explosion in a chemistry lab in an airlock, cutout silhouette photo.Work 5560.Giorgione pastoral of a haboob in a Mauritian sugar mill, Fernand Leger canvas, the armistice, amber monochrome.Work 5446.A foundry pour seen from the gantry, long exposure, orange light.Work 5280.A bottled cloud, Pollock drip canvas, houndstooth, cooling tower plume.Work 4496.A milky tea brown parade seen from a third floor window in a pumping station, volumetric lighting, realistic.Work 4102.An officially haunted Geiger counter with nothing on it, Maya stela, thin cloud light.Work 3613.Airline safety leaflet of a lime burner at a kiln mouth in a sinkhole, afterglow.Work 3387.A foundry pour seen from the gantry, long exposure, orange light.Work 3218.Industrial age, colorful, 1990s.Work 910.