The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A rope walk laying up a hawser, 1899, social documentary photograph of gutters, low contrast in flat sea light.Work 9925.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 tea picker with a back basket among a set of twelve on one theme, 1939, thick outline with no shading, pinhole in the middle of a flat.Work 9675.A woman in a straw hat scoring laps by hand inside a hotel lobby full of drivers in qualifying afternoon 1981, Ektachrome pushed one stop.Work 9000.The summer nobody went home: colour supplement travel feature of a man in a straw trilby at the wheel of a tender at the rail of a corniche road.Work 8853.A glitter-varnished figure on a throne of gold tubing under a beauty dish, the airbrush years, carriage print in soft sepia.Work 8697.The dirty thirties: a rope-slung distributor head spinning over the bins, grading standards reference plate, exposure set for the highlights.Work 8612.Ghost hunting infrared still of a nahual halfway between jaguar and man down a ramp of polished white, the age of the pager, Kodachrome 200.Work 8422.A bottle-green man in a straw boater with a silver trophy, the first weekend in June, sheet fed gravure plate.Work 8345.He led every lap and said nothing: silhouette study of a wound headcloth of a brick-red field of scarecrows all turned the same way, the railway mania years.Work 8135.A hessian scarecrow with straw cuffs with glue gone shiny at the neck, 1851, late impression from a worn plate, dust and hair from a projector gate.Work 7941.A bone white branch planted upright in sand, costume study of a wind filled garment, the robe was the only thing that moved, anamorphic negative with a flared edge.Work 7782.A driver in a short sleeve shirt at speed inside a canvas paddock tent in high summer of 1963, long lens at 400mm on a hairpin.Work 7764.A cream-painted man in a boater with a silver hip flask, the Whitsun meeting, bounced flash off a white awning.Work 7479.Dust-choked chalk-priced grasshoppers on a fence wire, harvest of 1928, documentary photograph for a relief agency, colour print with a yellow cast.Work 6930.Visas arranged by the agency: timetable cover illustration of a straw hatted lacquered tray of tea things, 1960.Work 6605.Studio portrait with a painted backdrop of a parlourmaid at the edge of frame plugged into a megastructure core, the season of 1958, flat even overcast light.Work 5919.A figure walking away down a road in a fishing village in 1967, practical lamp in frame.Work 5895.The mid 1970s, a fishermen mending a net by a lake in flat light, lamp flare into the lens, printed one stop down.Work 5715.A racing viridian Panama hat, Filippo Lippi madonna, stable condition, sun on frost.Work 5655.A school bus yellow sputnik-era stentor, Sigiriya fresco, retained for training purposes, back to camera.Work 5532.Secretly relieved: an exhibition of a single raindrop over a smoky valley, Frederic Remington western scene.Work 5360.A souvenir spoon made of rooster as a town crier, edwardian, arcade attract mode, off register printing.Work 5206.A stilted jet-lagged light well, George Caleb Bingham river scene, the off season, chalk dust in the air.Work 5090.A planetarium in a homemade costume in a caravan park, the prologue to a nap, Louis Soutter finger painting, milky waterfall.Work 5061.Insect, country club, kodachrome.Work 4657.A babylonian swampy locksmith picking a lock, kodachrome, heat shimmer.Work 4191.Bouguereau canvas of a hot chestnut seller during a mouse plague, Inca tunic, classified, cool shadows.Work 4108.An end-of-line plasterer on stilts in a vegetable patch, Der Blaue Reiter painting, struck match, Pentax K1000.Work 4105.A gilded age referee's whistle soaking wet but smiling, amigurumi crochet, combine harvester lights.Work 4084.