The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 1, 2024
At the Telephone
1928
(Russian, 1891–1956)
Image: 13.8 x 8.9 cm (5 7/16 x 3 1/2 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.146
Art © Estate of Alexander Rodchenko/RAO, Moscow /VAGA, New York, NY
Location: not on view
Description
This photograph was part of a series commissioned to accompany a magazine article enumerating the steps in producing a newspaper. Rodchenko’s images emphasize women’s participation, such as this messenger phoning the editorial office with information for a story. "We must revolutionize our visual reasoning," Rodchenko urged photographers. "Photograph from all viewpoints except ‘from the belly button,’ until they all become acceptable. And the most interesting viewpoints today are those from above down, and from below up and their diagonals." Rodchenko was one of the most important figures in Russian Constructivism, a modernist movement that expressed revolutionary political content through new, equally radical visual approaches.- Rodchenko-Stepanova Archives, MoscowHoward Schickler, New York, NYPrivate collection, New York, NYWednesday, October 7, 1998(Sotheby's, New York, NY, Oct. 7, 1998, no. 351)(Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)1998-2007David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY2007-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. Reproduced: p. 162; mentioned p. 163; reproduced and mentioned: p. 232.
- Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
- {{cite web|title=At the Telephone|url=false|author=Alexander Rodchenko|year=1928|access-date=01 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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