Conscientious (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
" John Heartfield was a pioneer of modern photomontage. Working in Germany and Czechoslovakia between the two world wars, he developed a unique method of appropriating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect. At a time of great uncertainty, Heartfield's agitated images forecasted and reflected the chaos Germany experienced in the 1920s and '30s as it slipped toward social and political...
Women's Lens (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
“Use photography as a weapon.” This was John Heartfield’s battle cry in his struggle to prevent the Nazis from gaining power in Germany in the 1930s. Rather than creating documentary photography like many socially conscious photographers of the era, Heartfield created photomontages by combining several separate photographs to create one image with a specific message. John Heartfield vs. Nazi Germany,...
Crap Detector! (Free subscription) | 01/23/2008
It is that time again! Chapter 13 Keywords. I included page numbers for you all. See, I am weak. Analytical cubism, page 249 Collage, page 249 Synthetic cubism, page 249 Futurism, page 250, Manifesto, page 250 Parole in libertá (words...
