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Through photomontage, John Heartfield innovated a method to reuse and appropriate images for political effect. This example appeared in the German left-wing periodical Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung (Workers’ Illustrated Magazine or AIZ), which published Heartfield’s biting anti-fascist art. Heartfield began working for the magazine in 1929, then fled with his colleagues in 1938 to Czechoslovakia, where he created many of his most famous political montages.