Alexander Rodchenko Photography Quotes & Sayings

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) — Alexander Rodchenko

Landscapes, heads and naked women are called artistic photography, while photographs of current events are called press photography. — 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. — Alexander Rodchenko

Photography has all the rights, and all the merits,
necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time. — 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. — Alexander Rodchenko

Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age. — Alexander Rodchenko