Photomontage

John Heartfield, the pioneer of photomontage, develop this unique method of approprating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect. Photomontage uses a large quantity of similar or contradicted images and films, by cutting and pasting them and reorganized and mounting them to composed a finished image with an extraordinary logical meaning. These images are usually carry an exaggerative characteristic, therefore they became a product to advocate revolutionary art. Heartfield uses method to create a series of ironic Nazism images. The photomontage in Heartfield's practice, become a form of mass communication.
The text in the picture:

Der Sinn des Hitlergrusses
The real meaning of the Hitler salute

Kleiner Mann bittet um grosse Gaben
The little man asks for big gifts

Millionen stehen hinter mir!
I've got millions standing behind me