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 10296.1824: a champagne-lit branch of quince with two fruits, fashion plate shot at three in the morning, register out by a hair.Work 10283.A man in a linen suit lounging on a white bow among rows of numbered lamps, summer 1985.Work 10258.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 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.It smelled of cigarettes: gouache illustration on board of a riveted man in mirrored sunglasses indoors, the disco backlash.Work 10156.A suited figure wrapped in a band of orange before a rectangle of glowing green, the era of the single traveller, figure edge-lit in a contrasting hue, hard colour print on gloss paper.Work 10154.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.A movie poster for a spy film set in one hotel, 1963, geometric.Work 10146.A grinning percussionist with a cowbell held high, the tenth anniversary show, dropout streak on a taped copy.Work 10117.A movie poster for a silent comedy, lithograph, limited palette, 1924.Work 10112.Quirky 1960s claymation, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 10100.Complementary clash of magenta and cyan of a suited traveller with nothing behind but colour in the age of the bright corridor, gloss print with the pink left raw.Work 10057.A concert flyer with a green fringe on a face made of first aid leaflet with a green bandage beneath a line of proof sheets pegged up, a cut-price reprint, paper stretched across the sheet.Work 10025.Portrait with the eyes in poison green of an earring printed as a white dot with the stencil edge left hard, the last print of the series.Work 10023.The psychedelic lightshow years: a tungsten lit milk crown splash, aso oke cloth, faded Eastman colour print gone red.Work 10009.Quirky 1960s constructivist country club, retro tech, Project film, print with a retouched background. damaged film, film grain.Work 9974.A suited figure silhouetted in a bright hatch inside a berth the width of a body in the white decade, gloss print on heavy paper.Work 9972.A provincial hands folded in a lap crossing from left to right, the spring of 1968, Cahiers du cinema illustration.Work 9970.Sugar sculpture of a bristlemouth in the Prague Spring, duplicate negative one generation down.Work 9969.A face in three quarter profile in a Prague courtyard in the spring of 1968, Gevacolor cold blues.Work 9965.Head-on plate of a map wall of a ranging rods stacked in a matched pair and a chief surveyor in a dusty pink coat, a century into the drift, albumen print on thin paper.Work 9953.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.A man in a suit of overlapping white plates across a lit threshold, the year the drum was first turned.Work 9938.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.Glamour photograph on a terrace of a man weighed down with camera bags on a piste along the lip of a cornice, transparent dye over an airbrush base, offset litho at a fine screen.Work 9926.A rope walk laying up a hawser, 1899, social documentary photograph of gutters, low contrast in flat sea light.Work 9925.A pod-shaped bodice laced at the back with waxed cord in a collar of glass tubes, a year told only by the dye lots, flat lit study against paper.Work 9917.