Promoting Constructivism: Kino-fot and Rodchenko's move into photography

Abstract

In March 1921, the Russian Constructivists declared that they intended to abandon easel painting and the creation of works of art in order to devote themselves to producing designs for useful objects as their way of contributing to the creation of a new socialist environment.1 Unfortunately, in the circumstances, designing for mass production proved to be well nigh impossible. Seven years of almost continual conflict on Russian soil (the First World War followed almost immediately by the Civil War) had left the country's industrial plant decimated and had brought commerce to a virtual standstill. So drastic was the situation that in early 1921 Lenin had been compelled to implement the New Economic Policy, or NEP, in order to jump-start the economy by allowing small-scale, free enterprise to coexist alongside large state-owned concerns.

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