A Russian painter, photographer and graphic artist, Alexandre Rodtchenko collaborated in the formation of the Constructivist movement. In 1924 he chose photography as his main artistic medium, abandoning painting; in that year he realised a poster that has gone into history, designed with the photomontage technique for the campaign against illiteracy. In 1928 he bought a Leica, with which he captured images with unusual and daring perspectives, with the intention of defying all the conventions of artistic photography at the time. With these unusual shots, he isolated and emphasised the simplest graphic elements – lines, circles, curves. Disliked by the authorities for his excessively Western style, he was ordered in 1933 to portray only state events. He worked with his partner Stepanova until 1940, when he abandoned photography in favour of painting.