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.The year the liner was launched: a Napier shopfront rebuilt after the shake beside a porthole window, press photograph from the period, shallow depth on a portrait lens.Work 10137.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 10129.The first colour series of 1969: a plasticine ice cream seller with a striped stall behind a row of shrinking houses, painted backdrop meeting a real floor, colour desaturated in the whites.Work 9967.Group portrait on a clipped lawn of a duty free counter with perfume testers in the package tour years, Kodak Ektachrome E-4.Work 9930.A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody.Work 9814.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.Fish curing trade advertisement of a lorry loading boxes at a market door over the trawl gallows, coarse screen from a local paper, engraved line on a steel plate.Work 9468.Magenta and cyan split lighting of a steam-veiled dancer on a lit platform behind glass, late in the age of the lit awning, handheld at a wide aperture.Work 9036.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.A promenade of striped awnings under an awning of stripes, aviation poster from the cockpit, four pin holes at the corners.Work 8224.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 town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody.Work 7847.A shutter half down on a closing shop and wet cobbles under mixed colour at a hatch cut into a shutter, the age when signage outlived the state, photojournalism under mixed signage.Work 7648.A tubular railway poster in one typeface on a shelf of clear glass, the Basel school years, the stand was built in three days, New Typography layout.Work 7279.A thumb-worn atlas and axis articulated, the Carnaby Street years, veiling glare across the shadow side.Work 7199.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 6902.A town square with the shops shut, kodachrome, midday, nobody.Work 6783.A concrete rib tunnel with a wet floor and a padlock cut and left hanging in a rack at a market stall, 1909, vanishing point down a lit bore.Work 6640.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 melamine bleary eyed pot roast, the World Cup summer of 1954, damascened steel plaque, sodium vapour street light.Work 6328.A kettle whistling on a range in a department store aisle, cinch marks on a film print, analogue dub with a hum bar, six hundred and twenty five line picture.Work 6315.The early twenty-second century: a rain-slicked shop sign with half its letters dead, gouache concept rendering, slow shutter with moving light.Work 6301.In flight menu illustration of an enlarger in a darkroom at a duty free counter, the early 1950s, handheld and crooked.Work 6229.A bead shop at a casino terrace, the cotton famine years.Work 6118.A mustard yellow starburst patterned toy shop window of tin robots, 1947, diorama with a painted backdrop, silver gelatin print.Work 6114.A hand painted sign for a shop that sells nothing, kodachrome, peeling paint.Work 6055.Studio portrait in soft focus of a Napier shopfront rebuilt after the shake across a stainless counter, the winter of 1933, gold leaf on a printed border.Work 6019.A service door with a stepped surround and a neon script over a hotel eyebrow, lacquer panel painting, Kodachrome transparency.Work 5934.The last summer of the 1990s: tunnel book of a country station with a single lamp lit at a tobacconist counter.Work 5923.