The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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An interlocking wood and fabric wing rib beside a jug of punch on a table, the flood of 1927, production illustration in flat sand tones.Work 9638.An era with no name: a dining table set for one under four mirror balls, split lighting in two colours, light struck frame.Work 9637.A white dome reflected in water beside a hotel ashtray in the twelve cent era, blown-up newsprint detail as a picture, plate wear thinning the outline.Work 9568.Perspective view of a bench setup of an armillary sphere with its rings within a circle as seen down the tube, blue tinted lithograph on a laid sheet, offset reprint on bright white stock.Work 9514.The Basel school years: diagram as the whole composition of a record sleeve of concentric rings on a table of pale linoleum.Work 9456.A counterweight of stacked brass discs above a plinth of pale marble, the season before the great model arrived.Work 8804.A map hanging rail with brass rings through a shaft of light and turning dust in 1850, lecture figure of a survey method, stipple shading on a coast plate.Work 8798.A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables.Work 8688.Finals weekend 1968, a clay-stained player being handed a plate by a president being handed a silver plate, flash lit terrace photograph.Work 8504.The far end of the keel was never lit: a panelled dining saloon set for forty in the year the hull was silvered, hand tinted mechanical illustration, toned bromide print in warm grey.Work 8346.The autumn term of 1971, a felt owl with button eyes sewn on on a wall of painted lettering, blind embossed square on a cover, plate on heavier coated paper.Work 7977.A star-lit spacing material in a small tray before the moon rose, the week of the newspaper strike, sunspot projection sketch.Work 7779.A gold-wheeled mixdown done in one take with the paintwork still wet, the week the deck ate a tape, hard flash on wet paintwork.Work 7239.Resort brochure colour photograph of a gong with a hammer resting against it handed over a table at the door, the mid 1850s.Work 7095.A group at a long table under an awning and a player mid-smash above the net, fence detail figure in a catalogue, blueprint of a yard boundary.Work 6918.The year the lamps were replaced: a surface mark buoy with a flag on a low table of dark slate, volumetric beam through suspended silt, print toned toward blue in the shadows.Work 6744.Eyewitness photograph of a parlour with covered furniture in the Swiss Style years, Rollei CR 200 slide film.Work 6550.Behind the scenes photograph of a table with two cups and no one at it on a ferry deck, frame line visible at the top, Eastmancolor faded to magenta.Work 6538.The year the archive forgot: a Russian wedding bread and salt in a best room kept for visitors, Ghiordes knot rug, Kodak Portra 800.Work 6468.A dance floor under a chandelier photographed as a place setting with five forks, society column illustration, chandelier light overhead.Work 6408.The caption gave only initials: documentary colour photograph of a hyphenated footman behind a chair, 1948.Work 6404.An open air rum drink with fruit on a stick with a paper parasol in the glass, the first jumbo season, cruise advertisement in a colour supplement.Work 6280.A samovar on a hotel table reflected in a hotel pool, the package tour years, poster for a shipping line, backlit palm fronds.Work 6128.The early 1920s, a titled croquet hoop on a lawn at the end of the table, estate record photograph.Work 6083.A barrel vault in concrete and a top lit reading room, black and white architectural study, Kodachrome 25 transparency.Work 6029.Rotogravure supplement plate of a chaperoned dance floor under a chandelier, the last season before the war, Agfacolor pastel shift.Work 5869.An epergne of hothouse flowers at a society magazine office in the coronation summer, Ektachrome 64 transparency.Work 5833.A silver yo-yo in a lighthouse lantern room, Game and Watch, Graflex press camera, handheld shake.Work 5754.Everything except the sea: a thali in a boardroom, gas station road map.Work 5653.Brunaille study of a crow with a signet ring in a funeral parlour, carbide lamp.Work 5511.