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Rainforest

photo Adam Sakovy
photo Adam Sakovy
photo Adam Sakovy
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    • Rainforest
    • Regenwald
  • 1979
  • b&w photograph, typewriter, mounted on cardboard
  • 21 × 18 cm
For ”Rainforest,” Lois Weinberger took a photo of a mountain forest and used a typewriter to cover it in slash symbols that hint at heavy rainfall. He thus employed elements of concrete poetry, turning this mountain forest into a rainforest by adding symbols from written language that become pictorial signifiers upon their insertion into the photographic composition. Moreover, the slash (in its miniature form) could also denote a comma—a character that the artist found important since it serves as a sort of linking element between word and sign. W.S.