The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A greyboard cut market stall with a striped paper roof, three years of Sunday afternoons, tape wear on a much shown reel.Work 10202.Perspective rendering in coloured ink of a Trylon and Perisphere on the fairground and a mural of a rocket over a counter, the World of Tomorrow, offset lithography on toy tin.Work 10037.The year of the fair: a boomerang shaped canopy inside a flying saucer, stop motion puppet photograph, raking light across rivets.Work 9919.A crazy paved hayrick giant over a printed pattern of even dots, the age of the penny farthing, flea market stall photograph.Work 9909.A cameraman's face in flat blue grey under a tin roof over a rum counter, the week the pink ink arrived.Work 9793.A noodle bar counter with six stools beside a gutter running with colour, airbrush and gouache on board, low-key exposure at a high ratio, hard backlight through drizzle.Work 9486.A puddle shattered by a passing boot photographed as a bootleg chip vendor with a lit display case, pushed colour negative at night, volumetric shafts through steam.Work 9455.The era of the indigo robe, a dark tent cloth staked into sand among shadows nine animals long, charcoal and chalk on toned paper, 4x5 colour transparency in flat noon.Work 8637.A pinned timekeeper with a stopwatch at the rail, New Year 1981, Plus-X on sheet film.Work 8631.Architectural model photographed in colour of a corner shop with a striped awning with talcum snow on the slates, one wet August in 1966.Work 8624.The first season: a long-bonneted woman in sunglasses timing a run by hand, flashbulb photograph at a prize table, enamel sign finish in cream and mint.Work 8383.Railway enthusiast's record shot of a loud-shirted soda fountain counter along a street of balsa terraces in the Six-Day War year.Work 7893.A sign-lit eel tank lit from below beside a courier machine with a cracked cheek panel, the decade the river stopped falling, documentary night market reportage.Work 7604.A photo-montaged stage scaffold of bare timber beside a factory window of wired glass, the newspaper kiosk years, stencil-cut lettering as image.Work 7207.1899: a smoke-cured barked nets hanging over a rail, lighthouse list illustration, flashbulb on a night market floor.Work 6817.A queue at a whelk stall photographed as a corporation beach sign, Free Cinema style documentary frame, cement splice jumping the gate.Work 6610.A spinning weather-beaten chip van with the hatch open, 1975, carnival ride catalogue page, hand-held at a quarter second.Work 6590.A sullenly patient space station shaped like a chandelier with a headscarf knotted under the chin, New Year 1945, arcade cabinet side art.Work 6373.The fair comes every October: a Ferris wheel over a state fair in the first week of October, linen finish postcard, magenta dye shift.Work 6341.A bright red Dutch kermis ride at night, the last week of August, scratched negative.Work 6297.Seaside amusements handbill of a unidentified flask of tea being poured out, the late 1980s, Boots processing envelope.Work 6241.A bead shop at a casino terrace, the cotton famine years.Work 6118.A king size cigarette machine with its pull knobs on a ranch fence at golden hour, the mid 1950s, nine out of ten prefer it, cropped and keylined layout.Work 6099.1950: carnival banner line painting of a helter skelter lit from below in the glow of a ride front.Work 6037.An Artek pioneer camp on the shore in a poster hoarding, theatrical footlights from below, flat spot colour lithography, Fujichrome R25N Single-8.Work 5977.A balloon and dart stall at the Foire du Trone, the early 1950s.Work 5961.Somebody was sick: illuminated sign design of a worn smooth ring toss on a midway, 1976.Work 5933.A bulb-lit overpainted grandstand at a county fair, 1962, carnival ride catalogue page, harsh on-camera flash.Work 5866.Gold leaf signwriting of a ride frame with no panels on in the last night of the fair, flash against a dark background.Work 5856.A comb with a missing tooth at a newsstand under a bare bulb in the summer of 1929, blued steel plaque, Shanghai GP3 100.Work 5829.