Jaroslav Rössler was a Czech avant-garde photographer of the first half of the twentieth century. His work has only recently become known outside Eastern Europe but he became established for his fusing of different styles, bringing together elements of symbolism, pictorialism, expressionism, cubism, futurism, constructivism, new objectivity, and abstract art. His photographs often reduced images to elementary lines and shapes that seemed to form a new reality; he would photograph simple objects against a stark background of black and white, or use long exposures to picture hazy cones and spheres of light.
