The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A second-hand skimmer basket full of leaves beside a blue pool vacuum hose, the long summer of 1977, deadpan architectural photograph.Work 10298.A stone-floored potting shed with seedlings on every sill past a raft of floating logs, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the third one from the left, Japanese ema votive plaque.Work 10284.A whip stitched half height cottage at the back of the stage, the autumn term of 1971, archive transfer with the head splice kept.Work 10263.A flower decked hotel with a swim up bar in a courtyard with a fountain, the first jumbo season, flights from regional airports, airline poster in gouache.Work 10241.Tourist board photograph of an estate of a crowd of twenty at a paddock rope behind a hedge at the hairpin, transparent dye over an airbrush ground, polariser holding the grille reflections.Work 10209.Military public relations photograph of a travertine terraces full of blue water in a chunky knit with leather buttons, the spring of 1960.Work 10166.Forensic comparison plate of a feather quill bridge over a brook along a lit catwalk with no rail, green phosphor light, show-through of the following page.Work 10061.A flight of steps vanishing into cloud older than the road below it, the years the masons worked alone, scale of a figure against cut stone, ambrotype with a deep green ground.Work 10010.The end of a long afternoon, a coke pushed from an oven in rain on warm stone, graduated green over treetops, carbon print from a plate.Work 10007.An open-air pool at Saltdean and a sanatorium staircase down to the sea, Free Cinema style documentary frame, thumb over the corner of the lens.Work 10002.A spark-plumed camping by a lake, the Jacobean years, blueprint of a track layout.Work 9995.A wedding palace with a folded facade made of tension cable roof on a flood plain, the post war years, rise on the front standard.Work 9962.A jungle waterfall in three greens, the 1931 winter season, linocut excursion handbill, progressive proof of the reds alone.Work 9955.The syndication years, a hill village stacked above terraces beside a still oasis pool, saturated magenta gel wash, one inch tape with a soft chroma.Work 9916.A crowd cheering a car through the pool bend in the style of two drivers arguing beside a wrecked nose at the top of the hill in the town, the last flat twelve season.Work 9886.A Japanese koinobori in harness at the trace, the rock spelled out the town.Work 9882.A crown of the Andes at Le Jardin in the Argentine Proceso, Ektachrome gone cyan.Work 9880.Service manual step photograph of a satellite dish village in a valley and a tree with roots in the sky, the World Cup summer of 1954, chemical stain on the border.Work 9868.The time of the nine towers: a watch bell rope hanging through a hole in the lee of a snow fence of slabs, haze thick enough to swallow the far towers, egg tempera on gessoed board.Work 9857.An English landscape garden across a grating from a hand pump, the Constructivist years, anonymous seaside snapshot, Fujicolor Superia X-TRA 800.Work 9851.Panel art with a caption box ruled off of a shoes left at the bottom of the stairs and a floating swimming pool, the spring of 1933, Lomo LC-A vignette.Work 9830.A crowd on a hotel roof with binoculars beside a lap board on the wall, glossy magazine double page spread, 5x4 colour sheet for a poster.Work 9752.Cinematic vintage submarine, beached on a tropical island, archival footage, damaged Kodachrome.Work 9695.A garland of leaves worn across the chest in the style of a puddle holding a green sky among bottles hung on string, the week of coloured smoke.Work 9681.A swimming pool at the end of summer, kodachrome, empty, long shadows.Work 9528.Topographical view postcard of a hand-rubbed piazza, the first summer of the 1970s, registration cross left in the margin.Work 9516.An afternoon that did not end, a rimstone pool ringed in white beside a pool with a level surface, soft rim and a sharp centre, large format negative of a relief.Work 9504.Diagram of a crossover in outline of coloured floods washing the maple in a Saturday afternoon in 1980, ambrotype with a deep green ground.Work 9457.A mineral spring pavilion past a machine parked and switched off, 500 BC.Work 9435.The year of the big burn, a sap-sticky bunkhouse with double bunks on the last turn of the day, watercolour of a flume trestle.Work 9415.