Rodchenko appreciation

[cliveh]

 

[jvo]

and a man of many, many talents.....

 

[warden]

Wow, fantastic shot.

 

[4season]

While browsing issues of Sovetskoe Foto, I found a brief discussion of the photo (apparently, of Rodchenko's mother). 1957, issue 3, page 11. If I'm interpreting the machine translation properly, they acknowledged his talent, but felt his work didn't do enough to depict "New Soviet Realities".

https://archive.org/details/sovphoto_v1_1957_03/mode/2up

 

[nikos79]

"Many people know what to photograph, but very few know how to photograph it"

Alexandr Rodchenko

 

[gary mulder]

"Many people know what to photograph, but very few know how to photograph it"

I like your humor. It often makes me smile.

 

[nikos79]

I like your humor. It often makes me smile.

I didn't say it Rodchenko did

Sources:

Novy LEF No. 11, 1928:

Every photo group knows what to photograph; but ho | PhotoQuotes

Every photo group knows what to photograph; but how to photograph only a few know. A worke...Read more

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“Every photo group knows what to photograph; but how to photograph only a few know…”
«Every photo group knows what to photograph; but how to photograph only a few know. A worker photographed as if he was Christ or an aristocrat…»

Under the context/manifesto of a new aesthetic in Soviet photograph

Mentioned also here:

Platon Rivellis - Aleksandr Mikhailovitch Rodchenko (1891-1956)

Ο επίσημος ιστότοπος του Πλάτωνα Ριβέλλη, Φωτογράφου και Δασκάλου Φωτογραφίας

www.rivellis.gr

 

[gary mulder]

I didn't say it Rodchenko did

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." Picasso

That kind of humor.

 

[nikos79]

"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." Picasso

That kind of humor.

Humorous or not is so truthful
Sometimes when I see photographs of children that play with the camera I am mesmerised. Original, sensitive, they are all very personal and reveal their very distinct view.
And then I see many photographs of new students of photography in Lausanne and they all try to mimic their idols. But what can we do we are too old to see the world like a small child. We can only try...

 

[snusmumriken]

Humorous or not is so truthful
Sometimes when I see photographs of children that play with the camera I am mesmerised. Original, sensitive, they are all very personal and reveal their very distinct view.
And then I see many photographs of new students of photography in Lausanne and they all try to mimic their idols. But what can we do we are too old to see the world like a small child. We can only try...

When our kids were young (6 and 8 IIRC), I thought it would be interesting to give them disposable cameras and see what they produced. Unfortunately it wasn’t.

 

[gary mulder]

Humorous or not is so truthful

Exactly !

 

[nikos79]

When our kids were young (6 and 8 IIRC), I thought it would be interesting to give them disposable cameras and see what they produced. Unfortunately it wasn’t.

Well they cannot all be Lartigue that by the age of 6 was doing great works
But i guess they photographed what was interesting to them right? Something that they "painted" with their own interest and wanted to "show" to you. Not something that they saw somewhere else which was as they were told good photograph. Free of photographic "influences". Which might have been quite interesting in its own

 

[gary mulder]

That’s the advantage children have. They dot’n know what a good photograph should be like. That will always be something made in the past. Children are more capable to make something new. Most adults are unable to even recognise the qualities of something new. They are burdened with concepts from the past.
I find much humor in following adults confronted with there own shadow.