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MAJOR Illiteracy or small disgusting?
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In the N 4 (April), "Soviet Photo" was placed "letter", in thinly disguised terms accusing Alexander Rodchenko photographs plagiirovanii fotografistov overseas, in particular, Mogul-Nagy.
This is - firstly.
And when Alexander Rodchenko to expose the nasty ambiguity of this note addressed to the editor "photography" with a letter, last letter is not printed.
This - Second.
That is why Alexander Rodchenko forced his letter to the editor "of the Soviet photo printed on the pages of the New Lef.
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Rodchenko.
To the Editor of "photography"
April 6, 1927
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I am a "seeker of new paths in the pictures (says you have placed the" letter ")?
Absolutely right.
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Is it because and there was your letter?
"... Known for its ability to see things in own way, radically different way from his own point of view."
Did not know that this famous "own way and with their own terms."
About the property at a point can only think illiterate people.
One thing to "find ways" and quite another - their point. "
In photography, there are old terms, in terms of a person standing on the ground and looking straight ahead or as I call it - "shooting from the navel, the apparatus on the abdomen.
Against this point I am fighting and will fight, as do my colleagues on a new photo.
Remove from all points except "from the navel, until found all these points.
The most interesting points today are "top-down and bottom-up, and over them to work. Who invented them, I do not know, but I think they have long existed. I want them to adopt, expand and train them.
I do not care, as any cultured person who said "A", it is important to "A" and extend until the end to be able to say "B".
If pictures of top-down and bottom-up say it is under Rodchenko, you just need to explain the ignorance of such statements and to introduce modern photography, showing images of the best artists from different countries.
Images that are associated with you with my pictures, they say, or a total ignorance associates, or about his promiscuity in the media of sabotage. You can compare and pick up anything. But to do this the conclusion of plagiarism at least nonsense.
How could move the culture, if not the exchange and learning experiences and achievements?
An example of such an easy choice, I enclose herewith. I rummaged in foreign journals, and just took two Soviet Journal - "photography" and "Soviet Cinema."
If you speak the language of "Soviet Photo" - turned out plagiarism S. Fridlyand and Shaikhet even more revealing than mine. I do not think so. I have great respect for photo Shaikhet Fridlyand and experiences and their desire to get out of the swamp of old photos. Them as living human beings can not affect the real thing the West.
Puts the same journal "Soviet Photo" best shots of foreign authors?
I hope not because these images do not have to pay?
Essentially "illustrations" to the letter:
"Boats" Marty is much weaker in my tracks and I think these boats can pick up a whole album.
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"Pipe" A. Renger-patch and my "tree" made from the bottom up, are very similar, but did not clear, "the photographer" and the wording that this similarity made me deliberately?
Tree with the navel, "hundreds of years hammered painters and photographers behind them, and when I give a tree, shot upward, like industrial stuff - trumpet, it is - a revolution in the eye of man in the street and an old lover of landscapes.
I thus expanding the notion of ordinary objects.
Do you need this lecture?
Images like the "tube" Renger-patch, I think this modern photo (do not think that it is "his" point of Renger-patch. This is - our point), and such images, and in particular this is the picture I put myself in the journal Soviet Cinema "in the section" Photos and movies, which I knows.
The author of an illustrated letter finally reached the line of overexposure.
Snapshot Mogul-Nagy "balcony" and my "balcony" strikingly similar ", and so he put them side by side. But these works, the talk in my favor, so he shot Mogul year-Nagy did not deliver. I have it right. My "balcony" and other images balcony published in the journal "Soviet Cinema" in N 2 for 1926, the Mogul-Nagy - in the journal "UHU" in February 1928
What would he say to this edition of "Soviet Photo", "test" message and images?
Point out that there's "balcony" Mogul-Nagy, very similar to mine, in the journal "Das Blatt illyustrirte" N 15 for 1928
But all this does not detract from first-class work of such exceptional musicians as Mogol-Nagy, which I appreciate.
Flip-Nagy, a former left-bespredmetnik painter, not once approached me for sending my photos. Them he knows well and appreciates my work. And in the days of painting I had a great influence on him, as he repeatedly wrote.
If a simple journalistic integrity is not necessary for things to be placed "Soviet Photo", then, perhaps, be allowed to ask for a primitive literacy.
Need to do business with new modern photography.
I think that my pictures are not worse with me being compared, and this is their value.
Besides them, I have pictures that are difficult to comparability.
If my pictures there is one or two similar, then surely the endless scenery and head placed in your journal, you'll find thousands.
Have more to our imitation, and not under Rembrandt, placed in the "photography"!
Do not be gravediggers of contemporary photography, and be her friends!
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[] 7. Illustrations to the letter to the editor. Our, abroad and "our." Photo by Flah (Germany), "Soviet Photo" N 10 of 1927
[] 8. Illustrations to the letter to the editor. Our, abroad and "our." Photo by S. Friedland (Moscow), "Soviet Photo" N 11 in 1927
[] 9. Illustrations to the letter to the editor. Our, abroad and "our." Photo by M. A. Kaufman (Moscow), "Soviet Cinema" N 6-7 for 1926
[] 10. Illustrations to the letter to the editor. Our, abroad and "our." Photo by S. Friedland (Moscow), "Soviet Photo" N 9, 1927
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[] 11. Illustrations to the letter to the editor. Our, abroad and "our." Photo K. Blikensderfer (Denver S.A.S.SH.) "Soviet Photo" N 3 in 1927
[] 12. Illustrations to the letter to the editor. Our, abroad and "our." Photo by A. Shaikhet (Moscow), "Soviet Photo" N 6 in 1927
[] 13. Illustrations to the letter to the editor. Our, abroad and "our." Photo by Pearl (Moscow), "Soviet Cinema" N 8 for 1926
[] 14. Illustrations to the letter to the editor. Our, abroad and "our." Photo by S. Friedland (Moscow), "Soviet Photo" N, 12, 1927
Note: A. Shaikhet and S. Friedland is not a simple ordinary photographers. They are well-known photographers, reporters, award-Soviet awards.
What is the conclusion of these comparisons do Ed. "Soviet Photo" I do not know.
My conclusion is this:
Fear not, fellow photographers, officials from the pictures!
Long live the left picture!