Alexander Rodchenko
An Important Collection of Vintage Photographs
Zug2001
With his photographs taken from unaccustomed angles of view, Alexander Rodchenko made history in the 1920s and 1930s and opened new perspectives in camera art. These include views from the top down and vice versa, as well as shifting and slanting of picture axes as in our "Girl with Leica," dating from 1934. In this way, the reality formed appears to be in dimensions entirely different from those in which, in Rodchenko's own words, people had been accustomed to seeing reality, i.e. "from the navel outward." A few examples of these epoch-making points of view are now on sale as "vintage prints" at Galerie Gmurzynska Zug. (Grigory Anisimov, Frankfurter Allgemeine, 11. Nov. 2001)
