DI_GI_TA_LIS, 2023

DI_GI_TA_LIS presents a series of plant portrayals. The local useful plants are not photographed following to the central perspectival principle of the camera obscura, but captured by a high-resolution flatbed scanner. The book provides an overview of the performative series of the “Plant Scans” by Achim Mohné, who since the 1990s has been dealing with a “poetry of the technical” in art at the intersection of device, interface and intermediality.

The exhibition "ALLEEN, BLUMEN, FRAUEN UND SCHNEE“ at Forum für Fotografie Köln shows the first print from the series DI_GI_TA_LIS, which uses the full resolution of the scanner, in the format 240 x 180 cm. A photographic homage of the Forum für Fotografie Köln, on their 20th anniversary, with many other works, among others by Helmut Newton, Man Ray, Sahra Moon, Tracey Moffart, Lee Friedlander, Horst P. Horst, Frank Horvart, Martin Schoeller, Bettina Rheims...