The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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A matting-floored crewman in a beaded collar leaning out black against an enormous sun, the tail of the 1960s, telephoto compression of a formation.Work 10296.A launch gantry with a swing arm at a service station forecourt, the space race, Frank R. Paul style cover painting, coloured gel on the background.Work 10224.The whole series ran to forty: hand-cut stencil label art of a glue-stained steam locomotive seen head on, 1945.Work 10175.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.An air hostess pointing to an exit with the sound word lettered across it, the hundredth issue, dotted illustration with no grey in it, two flats meeting with a white gap.Work 10060.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9974.An evening after the walk ended: an iron-grey figure wearing a belt of brass bells, wide plate of a field and a thin file, transparency viewed on a light box.Work 9940.Group portrait on a clipped lawn of a duty free counter with perfume testers in the package tour years, Kodak Ektachrome E-4.Work 9930.Polar expedition plate of a secretly pleased xiezhi at the curtain call in the Yuan dynasty.Work 9869.Licensing inspection photograph of a town square, Ektachrome E100G, Fujicolor Superia 200.Work 9818.A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 9724.Muted pastels in a cold interior of a German nutcracker soldier in the Swiss Style years, K-14 processed Kodachrome.Work 9683.A row of six identical heads photographed as a pilot's face under a peaked cap, portrait blocked in with flat ink only, sun bleach across one half of the sheet.Work 9662.Brick-red two ranks of ringers facing each other, two hours before noon, frame with the last figure half in it, negative with the notch code showing.Work 9641.A bandsman's head in hot red beside a fairground booth front in a session in 1975, portrait in chrome yellow and violet, print taped to a studio wall.Work 9614.A signalman holding out a staff, railway poster in flat colour, the pilot dropped a wheel that morning, faded colour print on resin paper.Work 9573.Colour negative work pushed for density of a procession of figures in stacked collars with a fish still on the spear, the last week of a wet winter.Work 9479.A gilt-lettered airline steward at a cabin door with a red route line behind it, 1928, ruled aerial view poster.Work 9375.Heroic labour poster illustration of a docketed hard hat with a tally number among reference numerals from 1 to 40 in 1872.Work 9229.A helmeted head seen from below and a newspaper page spread on a rail, magazine cover with an overprinted circle, over-inked to a solid black.Work 9207.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 dwarfed steward carrying a sealed white tumbler, the season of the standing watch, spotless colour internegative.Work 8973.High Victorian, a newsprint-tan medic bandaging a forearm after a preparation in the museum, the French atlas manner with soft tints.Work 8875.A war bond poster for a war nobody fought, lithograph, limited palette, 1943.Work 8765.A renaissance portrait of a stag as a general, oil on panel, armour.Work 8572.A two inspectors either side of a cordon rope past a marker driven into the dust, cold shadow against hot ground, wide gauge frame scanned at full width.Work 8551.Well into the age of the grown limb: benday pattern behind a figure of a war nurse under a canvas roof between two waiting attendants.Work 8540.An unlined black fireman raking the fire out with the distance in four tones, the Taisho years, railway company publicity photograph.Work 8472.A flat cap by a kitchen range in the spring of 1953, coastguard station record photograph, a soft flatbed scan.Work 8445.Operating rule book illustration of a fireman filling the tender by hand, coarse newspaper halftone, selenium-toned print.Work 8348.