The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A sleeper-straight riveter silhouetted on a girder beside a tank engine in faded oxblood livery, the year the line was relaid, constructivist poster.Work 9892.The winter of 1961: clinical record photograph with a scale of an open pit mine in snow at a level crossing.Work 9584.Votive ship model of a garden railway engine, two heads on the riser portrait, soft focus from a single element.Work 9224.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 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.Night photograph by flash powder of a tender first locomotive backing down, sepia-toned print, panchromatic film at ASA 64.Work 7830.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.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 broken bauble in a hollow holding green smoke in the year the mill closed, canopy work of white glass and stain, poster paint on black stock.Work 7263.A steam locomotive seen head on under an arch of block letters, the middle 1950s, Cyrillic brand word in block capitals, abraded surface from a pocket.Work 7182.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 fitted freight running at speed through a smoke-filled shed, rubber-stamped date on the back, scratched and dusty negative scan, four-colour litho on poster paper.Work 6768.A diesel-smoked front car of the Scenic Railway at Dreamland in 1957, heavy grain in the shadows, deep contrast.Work 6295.A lincoln green steam-powered level crossing with no railway, Afewerk Tekle canvas, where lost gloves go, hair light.Work 5313.A cable car climbing into cloud, Lomo LC-A snapshot, fire engine red, raindrops on the lens.Work 3545.A cotton wool smouldering complaints book, model railway layout, two roads that do not meet, ghosting figures.Work 2822.