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Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Russian: Александр Михайлович Родченко; 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1891 – 3 December 1956) was a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design; he 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."
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Movies 6
Albidum (1928)
The Doll with Millions (1928)
Moscow in October (1927)
Your Friend (1927)
Kino-Pravda No. 18 (1924)
Kino-Pravda No. 14 (1923)
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GenderMale
Birthday1891-12-05
Deathday1956-12-03 (64 years old)
CitizenshipsRussian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Russian Empire, Soviet Union
Also Known AsAleksandr Rodchenko, Александр Родченко
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