The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A tobacco advert with a magenta ghost on a pinboard of overlapping notices, offset print with dot gain in the shadows, dot gain swallowing the shadow detail.Work 10287.A saw kerf full of sawdust, the last season of steam yarding, mill town newspaper photograph, monochrome with no sky detail.Work 10118.Airbrushed poster in muted earth of an austere dust wall advancing on a low camp, a hundred thousand days on, print with the highlight burned out.Work 10063.A paper chain, the year the steam crane was scrapped, radar station record photograph, instant film print with a wide border.Work 10029.The early 1940s, an atomic powered drive in with a circular pavilion with gyros turning in its skull, matte painting for a film.Work 9997.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.A steel-skinned comet tail over a dome in 1897, flash powder light in a dome, print faded to a warm brown.Work 9871.The colour arrived before the sound: film still of a smoke sequence of a shell-hung smoke crossing a shaft of sunlight, the closing 1960s.Work 9708.A dust devil crossing a field, telephoto, heat haze.Work 9685.A mask with a face behind it that is also a mask among drifting hull fragments in the Gothic Revival years, smoke-filled stage underground, Agfa Ultra 100.Work 9596.The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing.Work 9584.Silhouette in a tunnel mouth of a torch beam cutting through steam, medium format monochrome negative, dripping ceiling caught in flash.Work 9448.A crematorium chimney through a glass wall three storeys high, carbon transfer print, stone lithograph with a tint plate.Work 9364.An autumn a hundred summers ahead, a badged smog sea with tower tops as islands with a landing pad strobing above, optical composite with a painted sky.Work 9027.Carriage print of a junction of a smoke-stained hydraulic capstan hauling a wagon beside a passing loop in the winter of 1963.Work 8868.A thunderhead above a dry range, label art with a hard black outline, the crate was broken up for kindling, nail hole through one corner.Work 8831.A water tank on a wooden trestle on a dome catwalk rail, developer streak down the frame, photogravure of a nebula plate, dense sky fog across a corner.Work 8731.An ash falling through a light beam behind drifting green smoke, the smoke chose a direction.Work 8717.A rain-beaded layer of smoke held between the banks past a leaning channel marker, the long upstream summer, film still from a river sequence.Work 8694.A wordless rain steaming off hot leaves, an unrecorded week, bloom around every smoke column.Work 8687.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 passionflower under coloured haze in the age of steam and iron, harbour webcam still, a staple hole in the corner.Work 8607.A figure at the lip of a fuming crater below a ridge of black cinder in the season the sheep came down, gallery print behind non reflective glass.Work 8522.Epic scale aerial cinematography of an orange flare dropping through branches under a sky with no cloud, the closing 1960s, tungsten stock shot under flares.Work 8510.One wet August in 1966: tilt up a paper chimney of a fire station with two tin engines on a hill of plaster over wire.Work 8483.An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph.Work 8472.A figure walking out of a dust cloud beside a machine at rest, large transparency of a sunrise, available light at sunrise, halation ring around the sun.Work 8425.A sandstorm swallowing a road, telephoto, low contrast, ochre.Work 8414.A turf-hemmed sleeve widened into a shallow fin, the season the sheep came down, shutter slow enough to blur the vapour.Work 8411.