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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Rodchenko has received more than 576,295 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Alexander Rodchenko is the 6th most popular photographer (down from 3rd in 2019), the 213th most popular biography from Russia (down from 183rd 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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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Alexander Rodchenko ranks 6 out of 148. Before him are Nadar, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helmut Newton, Alberto Korda, and Robert Doisneau. After him are Eadweard Muybridge, Dora Maar, Heinrich Hoffmann, Vivian Maier, Elliott Erwitt, and Julia Margaret Cameron.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Alexander Rodchenko ranks 27. Before him are Ilya Ehrenburg, Fritz Todt, Frederick Banting, Osip Mandelstam, Edward Bernays, and Tadamichi Kuribayashi. After him are Fumimaro Konoe, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Grant Wood, Frank Costello, Michael Chekhov, and Antonio Segni. Among people deceased in 1956, Alexander Rodchenko ranks 18. Before him are Lucien Febvre, Robert Walser, A. A. Milne, Risto Ryti, Alfred Kinsey, and Konstantin Päts. After him are Bela Lugosi, Reinhold Glière, H. L. Mencken, Josef Hoffmann, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Bolesław Bierut.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Rodchenko ranks 213 out of 3,761. Before him are Olga Constantinovna of Russia (1851), Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853), Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (1928), Gherman Titov (1935), Igor Tamm (1895), and Nicholas Roerich (1874). After him are Gennady Zyuganov (1944), Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899), Raisa Gorbacheva (1932), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Nikolai Vatutin (1901), and Gustav Bauer (1870).

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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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