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Acquired in honour of John Acorn

First introduced in the United States in 1897, Jell-O initially struggled to find a market, so in 1904, the company introduced the “Jell-O Girl.” She was based on four-year-old Elizabeth King, the daughter of one of the advertising…

Codex. 18 x 27 cm.
N 7433.4 V211 A6 H26 2007

This series of postcards from the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague provides a striking example of the transition from Pictorialism towards straight photography among twentieth-century photographers. The postcards were issued in…

Loose Sheets. 50 x 69 x 6 cm.
N 7433.4 C6 A6 R622 2000 folio

Acrylic Box. 13 x 18 x 16 cm.
N 7433.4 C6 A6 T665 2002

Accordion Fold. 10 x 10 x 7 cm (box); 9 x 9 cm (book).
N 7433.4 C6 A6 I88 2002

Folded Paper. 22.5 x 27.5 x 1 cm.
N 7433.3 M646 2000 folio

N 7433.3 D794 2004.

These reprints of John Heartfield’s photomontages show one way that photographs circulated political knowledge. Heartfield reused and remixed images printed in the German mainstream media in order to expose and critique Nazi propaganda. One example…