Alexander Rodchenko was a painter as well as a photographer
and graphic designer. Constructivism
was part of making comments on civilisation and highlighting art as a way of
expressing their views for society. Rodchenko found it ‘his duty to
experiment’ therefore challenged the photographic ways with shape and form. His
images show repetitive patterns as well as unusual perspectives. Rodchenkos
work was influenced through the dada movement he focused on creating political
art that was against war. The medium he is known to use it a Leica I, which was
a high quality 35 mm film camera giving grain to the image he also shows high
contrast in his photographs.
This was my interpretation of Alexander Rodchenko's photographs. I
concentrated on subject matter which included repetitive shapes that form from the
buildings architecture. Like several of Rodchenko's photographs the perspective I shot of the building was looking straight up above at the image this allows you to the patterns of the spine of the buildings and makes it look slightly abstract. As I took this image on a Digital SLR I altered the contrast and gave it a filter grain to give it that film effect as well as putting the camera settings onto a high ISO. From looking at his photographs most of them aren't symmetrical in composition which also makes it look less flat.
