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This photograph depicts a patch of grass and flowers with large white letters 'G', 'EB', 'S', and 'R9S' placed upon its surface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The photographs in this book provide examples of Klivar's photographic work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a photograph of the black outlines of the three title letters on a gold background that were made with cliche-verre. The latter is a combination of art and photography. In brief, it is a method of either etching, painting or drawing on a transparent surface, such as glass, thin paper or film and printing the resulting image on a light sensitive paper in a photographic darkroom. It is a process first practiced by a number of French painters during the early 19th century. Cliché is a printing term: a printing plate cast from movable type; while verre means glass. Cliché Verre was one of the earliest forms of reproducing images before the advent of the camera. As a precursor to photography, Cliché Verre could accurately represent the original scene without the tonal variations available in modern day photography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This photograph depicts a close-up view of a creek with a large white letter 'E' placed upon a rock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This photograph depicts two men and a woman dining in a home with one large and one small lower case white letter e's partially obscuring the view. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a grainy photograph of a woman on a TV screen with a large lower case white letter 'n' under her chin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.