| Names: | Other: Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Rodchenko
Other: Aleksandr Rodcenko
Other: Aleksandr Rodchenko
Other: Aleksandr Rodtchenko
Other: Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko
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| | Dates: | 1891, 23 November - 1956, 3 December | | Born: | Russia, Saint Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg autonomous city, Rossiya republic) | | Active: | USSR | | Gender: | Male |
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.Preparing biographies | | |
| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.142 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.436,437
• Coke, Van Deren with Diana C. Du Pont 1986 Photography: A Facet of Modernism (New York: Hudson Hills Press, The San Francisco Museum of Art) p.182
• Fernandez, Horacio (ed.) 2000 Fotografía Pública: Photography in Print 1919-1939 (Aldeasa) p.209-211 [This Spanish exhibition catalogue is one of the best sources for illustrations of photomontage and book design for the period between the two World Wars.]
• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.465 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.]
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If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
| "Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of the objects, with a crude handling of matter. Moments altogether new, never seen before … compositions whose boldness outstrips the imagination of painters … Then the creation of those instants which do not exist, contrived by means of photomontage. The negative transmits altogether new stimuli to the sentient mind and eye." |
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