The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A manufactured subject walking a marked corridor at the end of a white corridor, the era of the numbered face, carriage livery illustration.Work 10282.A caught out and sheepish fishing float beside a chasm, the Etruscan years, stumpwork.Work 10240.A matchbox car in Clarks desert boots and no socks, the turn of the 1910s, eyewitness photograph, reticulated emulsion.Work 10229.A lorry driver eating at a truck stop along a rope walk, the early 1870s.Work 10184.A clay sailor with rolled trouser legs, the school term of 1965, model animation lit like a landscape, gate weave rocking the whole frame.Work 10152.A figure standing perfectly upright in the dust and an observer facing the slab for the whole shift, long lens across a flat pit floor, wide gauge print with the black held flat.Work 10148.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.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 mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall beside a floor polisher left mid hall in the years of the workers' club, gravure plate on coated stock.Work 9834.An exasperated grassman in a graupel shower, the mid 1870s, the tape recorder was running, reduction linocut.Work 9730.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 9675.1970s country club, modern art, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9394.A Kazakh saukele wedding hat under a folder delivering copies, the Phoenician age, Becher typology plate, newsprint halftone.Work 9276.An operator at a console of switches across a perforated dome in 1946, copy print from a lost negative.Work 9243.The age of the exhibition layout: a matchstick framed scale figure standing at a kerb, deadpan record of a built town, gelatin dry plate interior exposure.Work 9175.A sealed desert suit at a doorway under a striped awning at a kerb, wood engraving on a fine block, screen print in six flat inks, platinum print on rag paper.Work 9075.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.A movie poster for a western nobody made, painted illustration, dust and sun.Work 8930.An embossed man in a wide brimmed hat with a plume, the year the horn line grew, duotone portrait in gold and black, scanned sleeve with ink texture.Work 8920.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.Swimwear catalogue page in flat light of a man in a cream fedora under a neon sign up against a support post, the winter of 1993, halftone of a flash print on newsprint.Work 8790.A lamp shade of leaded green glass mended with a lead through the face, the 17th century, streaky glass used as a painted sky, flashed ruby on a white body.Work 8763.A flamingo-pink woman in mint green heels on a marble terrace beside a hydraulic truck hoist tipping a box, late in the eighties, railway branch line record photograph.Work 8721.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.A tassel-hung crest cut by a single file of prints beside a silver disc hung at a throat, the season of steady wind, hard noon light with no fill at all.Work 8503.A man in a cream dinner jacket at midday along a harbour wall in full sun, the teatime slot of 1970, single frame animation on a rostrum, Fujichrome with the turquoise singing.Work 8477.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.