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.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.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.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.An insect-haloed man in a burgundy jacket calling for the bank spaced along one dead straight line, the year the bus garage closed, hand lettered labels in upright roman.Work 8437.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 blown-out trawlerman's head in sea green inside a record shop window, an edition of twenty-five, flat portrait on a garish flood.Work 7390.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.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 flock lawned half height terrace at the back with a foil puddle at the kerb, the age of the exhibition layout, enamel colour under photofloods.Work 6881.A melamine bleary eyed pot roast, the World Cup summer of 1954, damascened steel plaque, sodium vapour street light.Work 6328.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.A cinema with three people in it on a shuttered terrace, the spring of 1968.Work 6276.A dripping gutter running with neon colour in the years of the long rain, practical neon as the only source, telephoto compression down a street.Work 6131.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.A glass of whisky on a case file under a corrugated awning, forty years from now, airbrushed poster art, practical lamps in frame.Work 5916.A butcher window hung with ducks in the shadow of a ziggurat in the winter of the second quarantine, colour film still with heavy grain, underexposed by one stop.Work 5914.The Afrobeat years, a hawk-moth feeding from a honeysuckle in a shopfront of black Vitrolite, Adox KB17, grid spot on the product.Work 5890.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.