The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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Volumetric glow with no visible source of a lead weight coated in tallow, platinum print with silver greys, ruling pen and two grey washes.Work 9998.A pontianak inside a lava lamp in the 1930s, diffusion filter over a flare.Work 9950.A tie-down bolted creature standing on a pin through sand inside a set lit from one side, the last week of a shoot in 1968, mould seam kept in the shot.Work 9314.The year the floodlights were installed: a figure halfway down an excavation wall above a cordon nobody crosses, hard raking light across raked dust, negative exposed for the dust haze.Work 9168.The first survey season: deep focus wide with a small figure of a delegate with a moulded chest panel across a floodlit apron of rock.Work 9069.A traveller drifting with the head thrown back made of figure with light passing through the helmet in the shadow of the pylon, the long luminous interval, large plate scanned at full chroma.Work 9039.The era of the outer moorings: a welder in a hood the shape of a helmet under a thruster bell the size of a church, brutal scale comparison shot, contact print with dense shadow.Work 8862.A renaissance portrait of a tortoise as an astronomer, candlelight.Work 8636.A bolted-down drop forge die half open through a furnace door peephole, the year the third furnace was lit, nobody could hear a word in there, documentary portrait of a melter.Work 8500.Test footage of a walk cycle of a lamp warmed plasticine doctor with a wire stethoscope, a wet Tuesday in 1966, lab scratch across a bright area.Work 8199.Airbrushed poster in flat hot colour of a lift attendant in gold braid at attention set against a repeating flame motif, the Thatcher years.Work 7872.A spark-bright struck match with a yellow flame in a fiftieth anniversary year, embossed brand word in the paper, flat colour with no screen at all.Work 7684.Rim lit silhouette against black of a generator-fed strobe head clamped to a beam, the last night before the demolition, U-matic tape frame with dropout.Work 7661.A binnacle lit by one small lamp down the length of a propeller shaft, 1895, cutaway of a panelled interior, copperplate line engraving.Work 7562.The slogan was in the wrong language: vignette fading into the paper of a foil-stamped match head bursting into flame, the post-war export years.Work 7546.A rivet-studded weightless dock hand in a hard suit gone amber with dust, the closing years of the outward works, spotlit figure in a dark lattice, hand-held at a very wide aperture.Work 7131.A level chain of surveyor's links laid out beside a naphtha lamp on a long staff, the year of the fourth cavern, monumental void with a tiny camp.Work 7107.A gas-tested signal bell wire down the shaft at the coal face on a wet morning, the year of the lockout, the pony never came up again, technical manual illustration.Work 6758.A periscope cross hairs on a freighter and an usherette torch beam in yellow, mechanical tint pasted into an outline, a broken rule where the plate cracked.Work 6728.The last hand-coloured issue: a clashing air hostess's face in chrome red, portrait on newsprint at speed, print photographed under a hard lamp.Work 6692.A tinplate lunch box with a rocket beside a glowing reactor port, the late 1930s, neon sign photography, sodium light over a parking lot.Work 6580.A lift mechanism seen from the shaft, available light, cables and counterweights.Work 6078.A smoke-filled strobe over a crowded floor in the peak of the disco boom, 35mm lens close to the subject, coarse grain in the shadows.Work 5851.A foundry pour seen from the gantry, long exposure, orange light.Work 5803.A silver yo-yo in a lighthouse lantern room, Game and Watch, Graflex press camera, handheld shake.Work 5754.A short-staffed battery-operated town crier ringing a handbell, Gustave Moreau canvas, an ode to a pothole, charging light green.Work 5615.A monastic serene sounding rocket, 1990s, 16k.Work 5452.A cave with a waterfall inside and a rabbi reading by lamplight at the moment of birth, Delacroix canvas.Work 5247.A tin toy robot in the style of a harvest festival loaf, power cut candlelight.Work 4994.An aloof spectroscope at the end of a Friday, Daumier caricature painting, torch through fog.Work 4932.