Alexander Rodchenko
Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko, 1891 to 1956, was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design and was married to the artist Varvara Stepanova. Rodchenko was one of the most versatile Constructivist and Productivist artists to emerge after the Russian Revolution. He worked as a painter and graphic designer before turning to photomontage and photography. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and opposed to a painterly aesthetic. Concerned with the need for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from odd angles—usually high above or down below—to shock the viewer and to postpone recognition. He wrote: One has to take several different shots of a subject, from different points of view and in different situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole again and again. He taught from 1920 to 1930 at the Higher Technical-Artistic Studios VKhUTEMAS/VKhUTEIN, a Bauhaus organization with a checkered career. It was disbanded in 1930. In 1921 he became a member of the Productivist group, with Stepanova and Aleksei Gan, which advocated the incorporation of art into everyday life. He gave up painting in order to concentrate on graphic design for posters, books, and films. He was deeply influenced by the ideas and practice of the filmmaker Dziga Vertov, with whom he worked intensively in 1922. Impressed by the photomontage of the German Dadaists, Rodchenko began his own experiments in the medium, first employing found images in 1923, and from 1924 on, shooting his own photographs as well. His first published photomontage illustrated Mayakovsky's poem About This in 1923
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'About this.To her and to Me' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1923 £6.99
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'Alexander Rodchenko & Lilya Brik Catalogue for Lyubov Popova' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1924 £6.99
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'Alexander Rodchenko wearing a working form designed by him' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1924 £6.99
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'Alexander Sergeiu Eseninu' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Business. Compilation of the Constructivist Literature Center' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1929 £6.99
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'Communist Party Members' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1925 £6.99
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'Conversation with a Financial Inspector about Poetry' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1926 £6.99
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'Decorative and Industrial Art of the U.S.S.R' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1925 £6.99
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'Den Shi-Hua by S.Tretiakov' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1930 £6.99
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'Diver' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1934 £6.99
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'Diver' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1934 £6.99
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'Dobrelet' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Dobrelet' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1923 £6.99
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'Educational history of the Soviet Communist Party' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Educational history of the Soviet Communist Party' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Essays on China' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1930 £6.99
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'Fire Escape with Man' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Girl with a Leica' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Guard at Shukhov Tower' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1929 £6.99
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'Hanging Space No. 11' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1921 £6.99
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'Here are those to blame for homeless children' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1925 £6.99
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'Krasnyi Oktiabr Red October' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1923 £6.99
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'Laughter of Children' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Lilya Brik' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1924 £6.99
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'No better pacifiers never. I'm ready to suck them forever and ever' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1923 £6.99
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'On the telephone' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Pines' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1927 £6.99
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'Pioneer Girl' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Pioneer' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Portrait' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Pyramid' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Read the magazine Young Guard' by Alexander Rodchenko in1924 £6.99
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'Rezinotrests galoshes are of the highest quality' by Alexander Rodchenko in1920 £6.99
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'Sergeiu Eseninu' by Alexander Rodchenko in1926 £6.99
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'Soviet Photo Number Ten' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Sports Parade' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1936 £6.99
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'The 1925 USSR Exhibition' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'The Everyday life of Leon Trotsky' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1923 £6.99
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'The Man with the Movie Camera' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1929 £6.99
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'The Trekhgornoye Beer will drive away home-distilled vodka' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1925 £6.99
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'Tuda i obratno' by Alexander Rodchenko £6.99
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'Untitled' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1905 £6.99
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'War of the Future' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1930 £6.99
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'White Sea Canal' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1930 by Alexander Rodchenko in 1932 £6.99
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'Battleship Pokemkin' by Alexander Rodchenko in 1926 £6.99