PHOTOGRAPHER

Alexander Rodchenko

1891 - 1956

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Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Russian: Александр Михайлович Родченко; 5 December [O.S. 23 November] 1891 – 3 December 1956) was a Russian and Soviet 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Rodchenko is the 8th most popular photographer (down from 6th in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from Russia (down from 213th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Photographer.

Alexander Rodchenko is most famous for his artistic and social contributions to the Russian avant-garde.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Alexander Rodchenko ranks 8 out of 148. Before him are Henri Cartier-Bresson, Heinrich Hoffmann, Eadweard Muybridge, Alberto Korda, Helmut Newton, and Dora Maar. After him are Vivian Maier, Robert Doisneau, Oliviero Toscani, Julia Margaret Cameron, Felice Beato, and Annie Leibovitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Alexander Rodchenko ranks 26. Before him are Fritz Todt, Genrikh Yagoda, Ilya Ehrenburg, Osip Mandelstam, Frederick Banting, and Tadamichi Kuribayashi. After him are Frank Costello, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Edward Bernays, Charley Patton, Henry Morgenthau Jr., and Fumimaro Konoe. Among people deceased in 1956, Alexander Rodchenko ranks 23. Before him are Risto Ryti, Konstantin Päts, A. A. Milne, Alfred Kinsey, Bolesław Bierut, and Reinhold Glière. After him are Émile Borel, Ernest King, Josef Hoffmann, Kenji Mizoguchi, H. L. Mencken, and Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Rodchenko ranks 246 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksandr Dugin (1962), Daniel of Moscow (1261), Vladimir Vernadsky (1863), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), Bruno Taut (1880), and Léon Theremin (1896). After him are Yermak Timofeyevich (1532), Vasily Stalin (1921), Ilia II of Georgia (1933), Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia (1857), Natalia Goncharova (1881), and Sergey Shoygu (1955).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Russia

Among photographers born in Russia, Alexander Rodchenko ranks 1. After him are Roman Vishniac (1897).

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