Images were used for politic porpuse in early centuries; such as the Germany’s Third Reich. Adolf Hitler was one of the famousest person in 1900s, he was on the peak of his power during the Second World War. Undoubtful, The Third Reich was resplendent once, and the portrait of Hitler became the spirit of the Germany. Personality cult was encouraged at that time, it made people can fight for their leader- just like Hitler. “Hitler with youth”, and “Hitler with dog” was taken by Heinrich Hoffman in 1932. They were used to record Hitler’s daily life-to show that he is an ordinary leader of a country not a aggresor. It was just a propaganda used by politics. However, these two images might be described as the positive side of a heart of the country. Another image called “Have No Fear-He’s A Vegetarian” was not. This picture was reproduced by John Hearfield. He replaced the butcher’s head with Adolf Hitler and combined with one of the leader of France at that time. This image was also used as politic purpose. It represented Hitler’s real features by using insinuative text. “Mechanically or electronically reproduced images can be in many places simultaneously and can be combined or put with text. These capabilities have greatly increased the ability of images to captivate and persuade.” (Sturken&Cartwright, p.131).

Let’s talk a bit more about the film “Manufactured Landscapes” which produced by Edward Burtynsky in 2006. This film is talked about the relationship between human behavior-espically the morden industrialization, and the landscape. The first scene is in a assembly department of a manufacturer in China. Workers are assembling segments for various of products. In the film, the producer shows lots of images of constrigent cans, metals, steels. China is a developing country with rapid growth rate. To maintain her manufacturing, she needs lots of materials; but there is not enough raw materials she can utilize. Therefore, she has to import those garbage that can be recycled to obtain her daily use. These materials are delivered to many places to sort, recycle; such as used enginees from the GM. One image was shot during this process, the producer asked some children to sit on those metal that already been sorted. I was shocked by those scrapheaps when I was watching the film. They are everywhere in that small town, stacked in houses, farmlands, even backyards. When I saw those smiling faces of childern I was heartrending. How would that place look like when they grown? Will they still having that simle on their face at that time? Frankly, enviornment is sacrificed when China is developing. The government do not have strict laws or regulations to protect the enviornment effectively. People do not have ideas that they will not alive without a good circumstance.

Another scene was startled me was those abandoned cities due to the construction of the biggest dam. Actually, those can not be called cities; ruins are much appropriate. 1,100,000 people have to move their homes to other provinces. The scar that been brought to the enviornment can not be recovered anymore. Human activities have much more negative effects rather than these. The ships graveyard in Bangladesh is another example. Hektares of lands are used to storage used ships, the soil becomes red or even black. Because the matel were used to build ship bodies were eroded during a long period. Abandoned gas tanks still have little storage soaked into soil; the land becomes useless.