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     Alexander Rodchenko

     CAUTION

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     Giving the place the note Rodchenko, edition specifies its strong disagreement with the basic idea of the author, a substitute for the struggle for the "new aesthetics" are utilitarian and production functions, which are in the new photographs, primarily interested in LEF. A detailed response to the "Caution" edition will give a N 12 "New Lef.

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     Assuming that the most important thing in photography is "what" is removed, not the "how" is removed, some comrades from the LEF warn against stankovizatsii, from the pilot, from formalism in photography, and thus fall into the aesthetics of asceticism and philistinism.
     You must specify the comrades that the fetishization of fact is not only unnecessary but also harmful to photographs.
     We struggle with easel painting, not because she estetna, but because it is outdated, weak technical display, cumbersome, is unique and can not serve the masses.
     We are fighting actually not even with the painting (and so it dies), and a photo "on a painting," from painting, "" under etching, "a woodcut," "under the picture," a sepia "," a watercolor .
     Fight for something, "that" depict, absolutely nothing on it you just need to specify it. And it's now all done.
     Bad and just filmed a fact not a cultural thing, and cultural value in photography.
     No revolution is not in that instead of a portrait of General labor leaders had taken off in the same photographic approach, as under the old regime or under the influence of Western art.
     The revolution in photography is to shoot a fact due to the quality (as filmed) acted so badly, and suddenly his entire photographic characteristics, that could not only compete with painting, but also showed everyone the perfect way to reveal a new world in science, technology and in everyday life of modern humanity.
     LEF as the vanguard of communist culture required to show how and what to shoot.
     What to shoot, everyone knows the photo-circle, and how to shoot, few know.

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     Filmed under the working of Christ or Lord and filmed an employee under the Virgin said that better and more important.
     Simply put, we need to find, search and find a new one (not afraid) aesthetics, the rise and enthusiasm for the expression of pictures of our new socialist facts.
     A snapshot from the newly built factory for us is not simply a snapshot of the building. The new plant in the picture is not just a fact, but the fact that pride and joy of the country's industrialization of the Soviets, and it is necessary to find "how to take off."
     We must experiment.
     Shoot just the facts as well as simply describe them is not new, but that's the trouble, that fact may simply remove the cover art, and simply described the fact conceals a novel. You, the fans of fact, also not so easy to write.
     And then, comrades, you will soon lose, where the right or left side.
     Not the lefovets who takes facts, but someone who can photograph fight "of art" pieces of high quality, and for this we need an experiment until stankovizatsii photographic craft.
     What is an easel-picture? In general, these terms do not, but we can understand this - experimental photography.
     Do not teach theory, without consulting with practitioners and do not be friends are worse than enemies.
     Great danger - the abstract theory for practitioners - invented for the sake of aesthetic asceticism.