CONSTRUCTIVISM

ALEXANDER RODCHENKO
-UNTITLED 1928


  This image shows a male figure walking taken from a 'birds-eye' view. It is a landscape image with the subject appearing in the right hand side of the frame, the rest of the image space taken up by abstract shadow, which i feel the black and white format of the image enhances. The composition exposes a view not normally seen by human eye and displays the shape of the legs which seem very unusual, even though we see people walk all the time.
  This view is only possible through the new lighter hand-held cameras that had just been developed and signals how Rodchenko utilised this to its full extent in his images creating shapes and abstract imagery out of what would normally not b an unusual subject. All of these techniques are very typical of Constructivist imagery and of Rodchenko's style of working, and it greatly enhances the fact that he was a defining photographer in the Constructivist field.