Alexander Rodchenko
Assembling for a Parade

Assembling for a Parade

© Estate of Alexander Rodchenko / UPRAVIS, Moscow / ARS, NY

Assembling for a Parade
Assembling for a Parade
CultureRussian
Titles
  • Assembling for a Parade
Date1928
MediumGelatin silver print with applied color
DimensionsImage: 19 5/8 × 11 3/4 in. (49.8 × 29.8 cm)
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 11 3/4 in. (49.8 × 29.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1984
Not on view

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The Russian Revolution and Russian Civil War (1917–23) brought drastic political and economic change, as well as great social and cultural transformation. Old ways of seeing and thinking were to be replaced, and radical artists ushered in a state-supported artistic revolution that was just as bold. In 1921 Alexander Rodchenko abandoned painting and by 1924 had embraced photography as the medium for this new era. Photography was technologically modern and capable of representing the world through an ever-mobile and industrial lens. Rodchenko pioneered techniques in photomontage, explored his subjects using dynamic angles—“worm’s eye” and “bird’s eye” views—and produced jarring close-up  portraits.

 


Taken early on a holiday morning from the balcony of the artist’s apartment, this photograph exhibits the sort of uncommon perspective that Rodchenko believed could help shape a new type of person. This beautifully hand-tinted print was featured in one of the few exhibitions celebrating the achievements of Soviet photography in the 1930s.



 



ProvenanceArtist family, Moscow; Galerie Gmurzinska, Cologne.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Galerie Gmurzinska, Cologne, on 11/24/1989.
Exhibition History"Alexander Rodchenko," Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1998.

"Soviet Photography," The Jewish Museum, New York, September 25, 2015–February 7, 2016; The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, March 11–July 4, 2016; Joods Historiche Museum, Amsterdam, July 27–November 27, 2016.

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