http://www.masters-of-photography.com/R/rodchenko/rodchenko_articles1.html
Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956)
- a russian born artist
- born in St Petersburg in 1891, then shortly his family moved to Kazan. He died in Moscow 1956
- he studied at Kazan School of Art in Kazan
- before turning to photography and photo montage, Rodchenko was a graphic designer and painter
- to make his artwork stand out, Rodchenko would look at odd and interesting angles when photographing his subjects.
- Rodchenko - "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 was influenced by German Dadaists and their photomontages. He used found images until 1924 when he started using his own photographs for his own work
- in 1928 Rodchenko joined the october circle of artists. however he was expelled and been charged with formalism only 3 short years later.
- he turned back to producing paintings in the 1930's and had stopped photographing all together by 1942.
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