Sighet, Elie Wiesel’s 1928 birthplace, still survives — a town in northern Romania near the meeting of the Hungarian and Ukrainian borders. Jimmy and Will Smith show some old tape of a radio show their grandfathers worked on in the 1920s, and some of the songs have some familiar lyrics. Listen to KDKA's Historic Broadcast, the Harding-Cox Election results. Agitated Images (Getty Center Exhibitions)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 1. In this climate, communists, Nazis, and other partisans clashed in the press, at the ballot box, and on the streets. The impact of Heartfield's images was so great that they helped transform photomontage into a powerful form of mass communication. Heartfield devised photo- based symbols for the Communist Party of Germany, allowing the organization to compete with the Nazis' swastika. His images of clenched fists, open palms, and raised arms all implied bold action and determination. In the image above, a disembodied fist becomes a radio antenna for a Communist- affiliated station in Czechoslovakia that broadcasted into Fascist Germany.
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