Alexander Rodchenko: 7 interesting facts

Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ро́дченко; 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1891 – 3 December 1956) was a Russian artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he was married to the artiste 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 in the past turning to photomontage and photography. His photography was socially engaged, formally innovative, and beside a painterly aesthetic. Concerned once the obsession for analytical-documentary photo series, he often shot his subjects from peculiar angles—usually high above or next to below—to astonishment the viewer and to come to a close recognition. He wrote: “One has to accept several oscillate shots of a subject, from alternative points of view and in swing situations, as if one examined it in the round rather than looked through the same key-hole once more and again.”

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