Alexander Rodchenko was a Russian artist who initially worked as a painter but moved to photography in the 1920s to find a new visual language for the emerging visual culture of the time. He created three monochrome canvases to represent the end of painting for him. In his photography from 1923 onward, he often shot subjects from unusual angles to shock viewers and delay recognition. His photos emphasized dynamic composition and placement of objects in space with unnecessary details removed. He also pioneered photomontage, manipulating multiple photos together to create visions of the future by suppressing individual images.