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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…

N 7433.3 D794 2004.

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

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

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

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

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…