Alexander Rodchenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Rodchenko

Russian artist and photographer

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1891

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 03-Dec-1956

Profession: photographer, architect, graphic designer, painter, sculptor

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Russian: ??????´??? ????´?????? ??´??????; 5 December [O.S.
23 November] 1891 – December 3, 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 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."



Alternative names	Isaak Izrailevich Brodsky, ????? ?????????? ????????
Description	Soviet painter, artist and visual artist
Date of birth/death	6 January 1884 (25 December 1883 in Julian calendar)	14 October 1939
Location of birth/death	Sofievka near Berdyansk	Saint Petersburg
Authority control	: Q443199 VIAF: 55613923 ISNI: 0000 0001 1647 2238 ULAN: 500100349 LCCN: n85370631 GND: 1057573981 WorldCat