Tag: avant garde

Portraits of Mayakovsky

Abram Shterenberg (1894-1979) ~ Portrait of Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924. Vintage gelatin silver print. | src Nailya Alexander Gallery

Abram Shterenberg probably was the first photographer who took portraits of Mayakovsky (ca. 1923). Rodchenko used his portraits for the photomontages for “Pro Eto” (About This), the love poem Mayakovsky wrote for his muse Lili Brik.

Alexander Rodchenko ~ The Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924
Alexander Rodchenko ~ The Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924. Museum Series, Portfolio n.1: Classic Images, 1924-1936 | Christie’s
Alexander Rodchenko ~ The Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924. Museum Series, Portfolio n.1 Classic Images, 1924-1936 | Christie’s
Alexander Rodchenko, also Aleksandr Rodchenko ~ Portrait of Mayakovsky, 1924 | src Nayla Alexander Gallery
Alexander Rodchenko ~ Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1924. Museum Series, Portfolio n. 2: Portraits, 1924 – 1937 | src Sotheby’s

Triadisches Ballett (Triadic Ballet) is a ballet developed by Oskar Schlemmer. It premiered in Stuttgart, on 30 September 1922, with music composed by Paul Hindemith, after formative performances dating back to 1916, with the performers Elsa Hotzel and Albert Berger. The ballet became the most widely performed avant-garde artistic dance and while Schlemmer was at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1929, the ballet toured, helping to spread the ethos of the Bauhaus. / src: light color sound 

Edward Weston :: Bedpan, 1930 / more [+] by this photographer

“Weston adopted the “form follows function” dictum, originally coined by the modern American architect Louis Sullivan as his own credo in the mid-1920′s and spent the remainder of his career extracting the essential structure of objects before his camera. Like other modernist photographers such as Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, his work proved that the formal character of the photograph could override the content, but, unlike them, he preferred to use recognizable, everyday objects from the natural and industrial world to assert his claim.”/ src: Metropolitan Museum