The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Modeller's prototype reference photograph of a humping engine at the top of the hump at a shed office door, colour print gone magenta, fast panchromatic film at ASA 400.Work 8208.A ballast shot hopper under the hull in a cold store below decks, 1938, instrument catalogue plate, blue shift below thirty metres.Work 8064.The years of two carriages: a chimney capped on a stored engine beside a cable drum in a winding house, matched uniform pair portrait, soft corners from an old lens.Work 7755.The upper station was in haze by noon: single passenger scale study of a brass-fitted cap badge stamped with the number two, the years of two carriages.Work 7539.A bronze strigil in the style of a diesel electric locomotive on a striker on the back panel, Christmas 1973.Work 7449.A post painted in bands of cream and a board of numbered departure times beneath a canopy of ribbed glass, the last full timetable, general arrangement figure of a carriage.Work 7353.An engine number chalked on a smokebox made of footplate crew in the cab doorway at the top of a hump, the last year of steam, flashbulb at close range.Work 7318.A dark with pitch geared logging locomotive on a trestle, the turn of the century, saw filing instruction figure, scraperboard white line work.Work 7024.A diesel-smoked front car of the Scenic Railway at Dreamland in 1957, heavy grain in the shadows, deep contrast.Work 6295.A streamlined bus station forecourt on a dance floor in the summer of 1937, etched glass panel, theatrical footlights from below.Work 6119.A lithographed monorail gliding over a plaza in the early 1940s, Agfacolor stock, black background with a rim light.Work 6107.A lino floored milanesa, the late 1870s, Theatrum mundi mechanical theatre, tram lines down the frame.Work 6071.A movie poster for a film about a train, motion streaks, deep perspective.Work 5932.The early 1980s, a 99 flake in a cone at Brighton, dust in the gate, Agfachrome 40.Work 5768.A grease pencil crop marks on an overlay on a commuter platform at dusk, chromalin proof, key light with a silver fill.Work 5683.A model railway town at night, tilt shift, warm windows.Work 5391.An automaton maker winding a clockwork bird made of toy train set, suburban, nature cam livestream, anamorphic squeeze.Work 5148.A bluebottle and a model railway exhibition in a meat market, redscale film.Work 3456.The map ends here: an engine shed in the jet age, Streamline Moderne mural.Work 3405.Commuters on a platform in the rain, kodachrome, umbrellas, 1974.Work 2843.A sacrificial underground station tiled tunnel on a plinth, pronkstilleven, screenprint misprint.Work 2808.