John Heartfield.
I want to look at Heartfield because he did manipulation before the time of computers and Photoshop, all of his edits were done by hand and a lot of his work shows the brutality of the Nazi regime. The fact that his work was all done by hand makes it even more impressive and I love it very much. This fits in well with my own war time theme running through my edits and my other themed images.
I find his work incredible the detail that has gone in to it and none of it was done on a computer. He has used a crude layering technique that we now take for grated, were we can do it in a few clicks of a butting he would have to hand cut the images out and layer them on top of each other them take a final image of the ‘layering'; once done and happy with the outcome.
His most well known work is ‘Hurrah! The Butter is all gone!’, this shows a family trying to eat metal parts and expresses the hardships of war and lack of food for everyone and how the war took food from everyone.
Its from people like that that the ideas for Photoshop and manipulation come from and even from this day his work is renowned and people try and do copy his ideas. I love the simplicity of his work, how he takes a few images that don’t really mean a lot and but putting them together by hand creates a whole new meaning to them and behind each image is a political view that is very striking. During the time of the war it would have been even more striking to the people as this was a new concept yet the images themselves would mean a lot to them having to go through the atrocities that the Nazis were undertaking.
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