econdary realities; create a relationship between the two images, which is often satirical and comedic. It seems that photomontages are the only way to exploit these secondary realities in such a manner. Thus, the photomontage becomes a visual allegory, holding all the power and truth of a literary allegory. In terms of the photomontage containing the cruel Commissioner Zorgiebel, he becomes equated to nothing more that a piece of paper. He does not have any more substance than that of his picture, which is easily being decapitated (Danto, 920). This idea of secondary realities bringing out a much more lucid vision of the primary reality will become much clearer with the analysis of the following two examples: The Tiger Montage and Adolf the Superman. Initially named Crisis Party Congress of SPD, what came to be known as The Tiger Montage, was published on June 15, 1931. This photomontage was an attack on the Social Democratic Party of the Weimar Republic, the political order that ruled Germany before the rise of Adolf Hitler in January of 1933 (Kahn, 74). First, in order to understand the implications of this photomontage, one must be aware of the political situation in Germany at this time.Just like the United States at this time, Germany was suffering from a horrible depression. The Social Democratic Party relinquished control of the government and Heinrich Borning of the Center Party issued the "emergency decree," which gave him a constitutional dictatorship over the country. Choosing the lesser of two evils, German officials allowed the dictatorship to go on for some time as opposed to a Nazi takeover (Kahn, 78). Fritz Tarnow, the chairman of the Woodworkers Foundation, gave a speech in front of the SPD Crisis Congress. He spoke the two choices that Germany had: healing capitalism or helping it die. He went on to say that they were currently involved in a quandary- the German people wanted to try to cure, but if it wer...
