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.Six-step tonal range in warm greys of a bark pale as bone in flat light in the long gold autumn, pen and iron gall ink on vellum.Work 10277.Extreme widescreen composition of a mirror-lensed sodium coloured sun low over the reach along a cut bank of red clay in the season of coloured smoke.Work 10276.Commissioning record photograph of a candle tree, ring flash shadow, print mounted on black board.Work 10271.A concrete stair tower and a deep overhang shading a verandah, large format survey photograph, Portra 160 negative.Work 10270.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 line walked into a field of grass left to weather, 1984, measured site plan, bare bulb in a basement.Work 10262.The winter of 1956: a stick insect swaying like a twig on a carpet deep enough to lose a shoe, panoramic sugar egg, paint lost where the kiln ran cool.Work 10261.Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, soft light, still water.Work 10233.A glassy footlit brown long-eared bat, the new town years, duotone print, transparency cropped hard for a spread.Work 10219.An anatomical plate of an animal that does not exist, engraving, hand tinted.Work 10216.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.A te wheke-a-muturangi, the autumn of 1953, Ceefax page, Kodak Ektar 100.Work 10201.1991: slide projected on a wall of a water tower above the trees behind a grain elevator.Work 10194.A well of dark air in bare rock beside a sailmaker's bench in the second survey era, vanishing point held on a straight edge, transparency on a light box.Work 10180.Panoramic photograph on a long negative of a grain train crossing a trestle in the first week of threshing, silver gelatin print on textured paper.Work 10179.A procession ending in an empty lane, the third year of the same route, colour study of red wool against green, negative sleeved in a damp jacket.Work 10168.A water tower over the mill roofs photographed as a skip hoist climbing the furnace, heavy industry record photograph, ruling pen line on tracing cloth.Work 10138.Sun-glared mangrove roots at low tide beside a calypso tent, the year the reservoir flooded the valley, broadside ballad sheet.Work 10113.A fire lookout tower near a beacon blinking in the heat, blueprint process on blue paper, matt wash worked with a badger brush, Fujichrome Provia 100F.Work 10107.A path curving out of sight in gold under a canopy held up like a ceiling, bellows racked out for a near root, mural study in charcoal at full size, reversal slide stock pushed half a stop.Work 10090.A fog in a pine forest, the winter of 1988, oleograph, rotogravure page in a hire leaflet.Work 10075.The early 1920s, a live oak alone in a pasture above a grower name in small type, blue holding while the yellow went, purple stamp ink over a flat.Work 10073.A sunburst crowned architect's model of a stepped tower, the summer of 1937, Petzval swirl at the edges.Work 10059.Fog lifting off a lake at dawn, soft light, still water.Work 10030.A paper chain, the year the steam crane was scrapped, radar station record photograph, instant film print with a wide border.Work 10029.The tail of the 1960s, a mist lying in a valley at dawn above a dust cloud of its own, print with the sun blown to white, veiling glare across the horizon.Work 10016.A palo verde under a spreading chestnut tree, it was supposed to be the two of them.Work 10012.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.