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Rodchenko Photography

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"it is generall assumed thst compersition is only a matter of ditrabution figures and objects on the piture plane"

rod - "this is not so. composition is all of that plus the partiulor structure od each figure, plus light and tonality the over all effects of light and the overall tonality; yet an entire composition can even be built up on light or on tonality alone."

Each figure has been photographed from the angle tha brings its sculptural quolitys into sharpest relief.

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Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in photography

page - 204

photographer for 3 decades - 1924 - 1954

others used his combertion and discoved new visual opatunaties and exspand the limits of photography

convayed beauty of tecnical objects and arcutecture whitch friends and colleges were creating

thems - every day city life

transphormed documentory photography into art

noticing how light penatrates transparant objects how the camera and its lences themselfs determine from and when making a photogram, how shadows arrange themselfs. he intentally stressed perspective and depth by chooseing a poriculor angle, and develped the principle ofshooting from high and low points, which in rusia became kmown as "Rodchenk's angles"

Art historan liubomir linkhart at the universaty of brague - He burned the bridges to old methods in photography.

Volkov lannit - the farther of soviet photography

style is easly recadnisable works of other 20th centory masters

combine the exspreience of a non objective painter of an inventor of 3 dimentional compasition and of a designer of objects of everyday use

influenced by cinema and contructavisum, photo jernalisum

demonstrainting that photo art has its own languge

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Bunker Installation, George Rousse, 2014

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Looking at the way that Alexander took multapul images from diffrent angles on the transmition tower and created an image from somthing already standing. created the geomic shapes from what he would already see.

Looking at how george rousse works with what is already there and creates an image within the space as well as serching for a perspective.

Both artist focus on perspective and shape yet rousse also build on the idea of perspective with painting into the area. making everything that little more complictated with the audence. As rousses work is bold you can only see one point where his images work. where as with Alexander's photograph you could assume you are standing directly in the write space to recreate a simulor view to him yet it could be quite a bit off.

The understanding of scale and looking at the idea of documention is key in there works as alexanders photograph of the tower is a documention of history and has made this tower a landmark that arutecs are fighting for to save. where as looking more into a moden idea of documention rousse's work needed to be photographed for record as this porticulor pice is created in a public place and is very likely to be defaced.

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British Design brings together leading international scholars, designers and journalists to provide new perspectives on British design in the last sixty years, and how it at once looked back to the past with the continuation of traditions that spoke to Britain's design heritage, and looked forwards with the embrace of modernist and postmodernist style. The book responds to and develops new ways of understanding the recent history of design in Britain, with case studies on designed spaces and objects, including domestic interiors, retail spaces, schools and university buildings and transport. The contributors address significant moments and phenomena in the historical and social history of British design, from the rise and fall of the English Country House style and the Brutalist architectural boom of the 1960s to the modern shopping space, and consider the work of key contemporary designers ranging from Tommy Roberts to Thomas Heatherwick. British Design provides new criticism and analysis on how design, from the immediate post-war period to the present day, has developed and changed how we live and how we interact with the spaces in which we live.British Design is split into 13 chapters and is richly illustrated with 65 images, 16 of which are in full colour.