MoMA NY | Elisa Besana

Untitled photograph. 1933.

Untitled photograph of a guard and prisoners during the building of the White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal. 1933. (From a photo-story for the magazine USSR in Construction.) Gelatin-silver print, 11 9/16 x 17 7/16" (29.3 x 44.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase

Vladimir Mayakovsky. 1924.

Gelatin-silver print, 23 1/2 x 14 5/8" (59.7 x 37.1 cm). Barry Friedman Ltd., New York

An Oath. 1935.

Gelatin-silver print, 16 15/16 x 23" (43 x 58.5 cm). A. Rodchenko and V. Stepanova Archive, Moscow

Untitled photograph from a series on

Gelatin-silver print, 11 1/2 x 9 1/4" (29.2 x 23.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Pioneer Girl (Pionerka). 1930.

Gelatin-silver print, 19 1/2 x 14 9/16" (49.6 x 37 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Alex Lachmann and friends of the Rodchenko family

At the Telephone (Na telefone). 1928

(From a series on the production of a newspaper.) Gelatin-silver print, 15 1/2 x 11 1/2" (39.5 x 29.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mr. and Mrs. John Spencer Fund

double life

tragedy venus

make up-make down

Sweet Violence

A man building his house on his own plot of ground, Marselle Township, Kenton-on-sea, Estern Cape. 8 July 1990.

Gerendomeerde or "Dopper" Church, Waverly, Pretoria. 25 September 1983.

Mother and child in their home after the destruction on its shelter by officials of the Western Cape Development board, Crossroads, Cape Town. 11 October, 1984.