John hart Feld's Creative Features

Like many Dadaists in Berlin, john heartfield injected obvious political motives into surreal photos, and was called photo editor of nihilistic political theme. He edited photo newspapers and created posters and magazine illustrations for anti-Nazis. In particular, he tried his best to satirize Hitler and frightened the Nazis, so they were madly persecuted, their works were burned, their nationality was revoked and they were forced to flee to the Czech Republic.

The 1930s was an important period for hatfield's creation. From 1930 to 1938, he produced 237 photo montages for Laborer Pictorial, the organ newspaper of the German production party. He edited photos and newspapers, created posters and magazine illustrations for anti-Nazi, and satirized Adolf Hitler by any means. For example, in his most influential work "Superman Adolf Swallows Gold and Spits Shit", the so-called "Superman" Hitler swallowed a lot of gold coins and filled the whole box. There is also a note next to the photo: he swallowed gold and spit out garbage. This photo fully exposed Hitler's hypocrisy and greed with clever editing techniques, and it is said that Hitler himself was very angry. In addition, in The Meaning of Hitler's Salute, hatfield vividly revealed an "unspoken" fact through photos montage: Hitler was a puppet manipulated by the German big bourgeoisie with money. And "Wow, no butter" is a satire on Goering's famous saying that "iron always makes the country strong, while butter and lard can only make people fat". In this work, not only the adults at the dinner table are munching on steel to satisfy their hunger, but also the baby in the stroller and the dog on the ground are munching on steel with relish. These works seem absurd, but they vividly depict the nature of Nazi fascism. Therefore, hatfield was madly persecuted by the Nazis, his works were burned, his nationality was revoked, and he was forced into exile in the Czech Republic.

Taking photos as a political weapon and exerting such great power is unique in the history of photography.