Category Archives: Photos

A couple more photos of the VTsIK Residential Complex. It appears that the clouds like this building too! A better view of the across-the-river neighbors, hi Kremlin!

The VTsIK Residential Complex by Boris Iofan, which was formerly housing for top Communist Party functionaries, sits conveniently across across the river from the Kremlin. I chanced to cross paths today with this enormous Constructivist building, and couldn’t help but … Continue reading →

This photograph of Shukhov tower (Шуховская башня), also known as Shabolovka Tower, taken by Rodchenko in 1929, was the catalyst that got me excited about Rodchenko’s revolutionary style of photography, the 1920’s and Constructivism. Alexander Rodchenko, Шуховская башня, 1929 I … Continue reading →