Um soldado na frente de batalha, um cientista no laboratório. A vanguarda de Aleksandr Rodchenko entre a cultura visual e a cultura política⁹⁷

This paper intends to retrace the early years before Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) adopted photography as a main artistic expression, process which is understood not as a rupture, but as a part of a larger visual experiment that he was developing during the 1920s. It also intends to place this artistic production in the realms of a political culture with which it was in constant and close dialogue. In retracing Rodchenko's paths from painting to photography, this paper intends to better comprehend and detail the political commitment behind that artistic production, and Rodchenko's in particular, which were understood as a broader political and social praxis that had photography as one of its constitutive parts.

Aleksandr Rodchenko; Russian avant-garde; Political culture; Visual culture; Photography