Homage to Alexander Rodchenko

Alexander Rodchenko's photography is all about extreame unique angles that portray objects in a way that has never been see before and create a unique prespective on everday buildings and people. He believed that "The most interesting viewpoints of today are the from the top down and from the bottom up" (www.telegraph.co.uk). He experiments around with perspectives by placing himself in unusual angles such as laying down and photographing up at the large apartment buildings to distort them or from high above to make people appear smaller or object become abstract. Most of his images were taken on the streets of Moscow where he used his trademark style of tilting his lens at unusual angles which made trams to appear as if they were about to derail or people walking on angles. His work however, was not seen as compositionally brilliant but unnessersary distortions that are not true and make people appear as freaks.
“In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations. New objects should be depicted from different sides in order to provide a complete impression of the object.” – Alexander Rodchenko 

My homage to his work has focused on the use of unusual angles to create unreal perspectives. I went to the top of an eight story parking lot in order to photograph down at people walking the streets. I spent a couple of hours photographing groups of people just waiting for the right composition of figures and statues. From such a height people appear as moving chest pieces moving around the stoned pavements like a chessboard trying to avoid each other and this is what I tried to capture in my image.

(http://juan314.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/en-el-pavimento-on-the-pavement-by-alexander-rodchenko-1930/)

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3671028/Alexander-Rodchenko-A-man-who-took-life-lying-down.html)