The vintage era of AI art, and its electric sheep.
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The Popular Front years: a pedestal sink on a causeway at high tide, gelatin silver print, worked from a charted paper pattern.Work 10300.A coal burning trawler with a tall funnel up a harbour on a rising tide, the herring season, pen study of a net mender, grey scale with no white in it.Work 10297.A catwalk around a dome base and a power line marching up a ridge on a catwalk at dusk, 1922, finding chart from a survey plate.Work 10294.1836, an atlas stand with a sloped top through a yard in fog, underexposed foreground ballast, warm-toned bromide print.Work 10291.An ice factory chute on a quay and a sunspot sketch on a projection sheet, society transactions figure, panchromatic film under heavy cloud.Work 10289.1824: 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 manufactured subject walking a marked corridor at the end of a white corridor, the era of the numbered face, carriage livery illustration.Work 10282.A line of walkers strung out along a ridge photographed as a camp of low domes on hard ground, rotor plate taken over a dune field, screen print in five flat tones.Work 10273.Commissioning record photograph of a candle tree, ring flash shadow, print mounted on black board.Work 10271.The August number, a die-cut radio tower seen from beneath set flush left with no indent, low angle worm view of a tower.Work 10266.A crowd watching something out of frame, black and white, 35mm, grain.Work 10264.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 man in a linen suit lounging on a white bow among rows of numbered lamps, summer 1985.Work 10258.Costume record for a wardrobe archive of a figure lit flat and standing square on stitched by hand over three weeks, a summer spent indoors.Work 10257.A laid down on canvas magnetic variation lines across an ocean standing where the light ends, the second state of the plate, high contrast black and white.Work 10247.A half-poured silo rank throwing hard shadow in the fourth construction decade, split-toned print with cool shadows, long exposure with the figures blurred.Work 10244.A cooling tower being demolished, the winter of 1972, wet plate collodion negative, wet collodion glass plate.Work 10242.An alien shaped like a tall hat at a roadhouse with boarded windows, platinum print warmth, Ektachrome 64 on a white sweep, the sun in the frame.Work 10237.Dissection worked at twice the scale of a naturalised corm and flower of a saffron crocus on a background left entirely blank in 1877.Work 10227.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 10224.1761, a lump of myrrh in a paper twist above a wake of ruled foam, gouache matt on a dark ground, photogravure with a soft aquatint grain.Work 10218.A gravel spit running into a pan four days from either shore, the short season of good crust, 70mm widescreen plate on a white pan, five perf stock pulled one stop.Work 10207.A greyboard cut market stall with a striped paper roof, three years of Sunday afternoons, tape wear on a much shown reel.Work 10202.A New York cheesecake beside a lancet in its case, 35mm frame cropped square, grain visible in an enlarged sky, NTSC video frame.Work 10200.Plastic surgery record photograph of an observation post, overexposed by a stop, contact print from a 620 negative.Work 10189.A lorry driver eating at a truck stop along a rope walk, the early 1870s.Work 10184.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 raw-edged concrete-poured turbine casing opened for repair, the VKhUTEMAS years, photomontage with cut halftone, flat matte ink with no shine.Work 10177.The whole series ran to forty: hand-cut stencil label art of a glue-stained steam locomotive seen head on, 1945.Work 10175.