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Alexander Rodchenko
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Alexander Rodchenko, 1920s (late, taken) 1940s (print), Self-Portrait of Alexander Rodchenko; "Pines", Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/54680
Alexander Rodchenko

Other: Aleksandr Rodcenko
Other: Aleksandr Rodchenko
Other: Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Rodchenko
Other: Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko
Other: Aleksandr Rodtchenko

Born: 1891, 23 November - Russia, Saint Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg autonomous city, Rossiya republic)
Died: 1956, 3 December
Gender: Male
Active: USSR
 
Soviet constructivist painter, sculptor, designer and photographer. His photomontages and collages are remarkable political statements and reminiscent of the work of John Heartfield whom he knew.

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Salvatore Piermarini, n.d., Alexander Rodchenko, Dessau, 1933, Drawing, Provided by the artist - Salvatore Piermarini, LL/59382
Image: LL/59382
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Alexander Rodchenko, 1920s (late, taken) 1940s (print), Self-Portrait of Alexander Rodchenko; "Pines", Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped, Bassenge Photography Auctions, LL/54680
Image: LL/54680
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Eleazar Langman, 1930, Alexander Rodchenko on the railing, Photograph, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, LL/68956
Image: LL/68956
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Eleazar Langman, 1930, Alexander Rodchenko on the railing, Photograph, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, LL/68957
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Eleazar Langman, 1930, Alexander Rodchenko with a cigarette, Photograph, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, LL/68958
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Eleazar Langman, 1930, Alexander Rodchenko with a cigarette, Gelatin silver print, Private collection, LL/116866
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Alexander Lemberg, 1933, Alexander Rodchenko in Karelia on the construction of the White Sea Canal, Photograph, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, LL/68965
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Anatoly Skurihin, 1933, Alexander Rodchenko in the construction of the White Sea Canal, Photograph, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, LL/68964
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J. Brodsky, 1934, Alexander Rodchenko on set at "Dynamo" stadium, Photograph, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, LL/68966
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Georgii Petrusov, 1935, Caricature of Alexander Rodchenko, Photograph, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography, LL/68968
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A versatile and influential artist in post-revolutionary Russia, Rodchenko helped found the Constructivist movement. His early Constructivist ideas regarding the artists' role in a progressive Communist society influenced the aesthetics of his wide-ranging projects in various fields of design, photography, and filmmaking. He is known for his experimental photomontage work and innovative photographic composition energized by extreme oblique angles, unorthodox perspectives, and unexpected framing. While he rose to prominence in the cultural bureaucracy of early Bolshevism, his artistic idealism was not able to survive the brutal cultural climate of Stalinism and he spent the last two decades of his life in isolation and obscurity.
 
(Author: GW)
 
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409] (Used with permission)
 
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