“Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.” ArtAgeAttentionPhotographyClaimsMerit Author:Alexander Rodchenko
“Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography.” EventsPhotographyPressesPhotographCurrentsNakedArtisticLandscapeCurrent Events Author:Alexander Rodchenko
“Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928)” PeopleWorldShouldShowsSidesPhotographyCapacityConcreteRapidsVantage Point Author:Alexander Rodchenko
“We struggle against easel painting not because it is an aesthetic form of painting, but because it is not modern, for it does not succeed in bringing out the technical side, it is a redundant, exclusive art, and cannot be of any use to the masses. Hence we are struggling not against painting but against photography carried out as if it were an etching, a drawing, a picture in sepia or watercolor.” IfsDoeArtUseFormSidesStruggleModernPaintingSucceedPhotographyMassDrawingAestheticExclusiveRedundantWatercolorsEtching Author:Alexander Rodchenko
“I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time, which will amaze and overwhelm people ... I must achieve this so that photography can begin to be considered a form of art.” PeopleWantArtFormSimpleTakenAchievePhotographyComplexesIncrediblesPhotographSimple And Complex Author:Alexander Rodchenko
“Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time.” ArtTurnsRightsPhotographyMeritOur Time Author:Alexander Rodchenko
