Main entry:

Rössler, Jaroslav, 1902-1990, photographer.

Title & Author:

Jaroslav Rössler : Czech avant-garde photographer / Vladimír Birgus, Jan Mlčoch, editors ; texts by Vladimír Birgus [and others].

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, [2004]
©2004

Description:

163 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161) and index.
Rössler's art photography, 1919-35 / Vladimír Birgus -- Photographs for advertisements / Jan Mlčoch -- Zones of visuality : Rössler's drawings, photomontages, and radio / Karel Srp -- Works after World War II / Robert Silverio -- Experiment in progress / Matthew S. Witkovsky -- Jaroslav Rössler : life in dates ; Exhibitions ; Literature / Vladimír Birgus.
Texts by Vladimír Birgus, Jan Mlčoch, Robert Silverio, Karel Srp and Matthew S. Witkovsky.
Translated from the Czech.

Summary:

"Jaroslav Rössler (1902-1990) was one of the Czech avant-garde photographers of the first half of the twentieth century whose work has only recently become known outside Eastern Europe. Czech photography in the twenties and thirties produced radical modernist works that incorporated principles of abstract art and constructivism; Jaroslav Rössler was one of the most important and distinctive artists of the period. He became known 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. From 1927 to 1935 he lived and worked in Paris, producing work influenced by constructivism and new objectivity. He used the photographic techniques and compositional approaches of the avant-garde, including photograms, large details, diagonal composition, photomontage, and double exposures, and experimented with color advertising photographs and still lifes produced with the carbro print process. After his return to Prague, he was relatively inactive until the late 1950s, when he reconnected with Czech artistic and photographic trends of that period, including informalism. This book documents each stage of Rossler's career with a generous selection of duotone images, some of which have never been published before. The photographs are accompanied by texts by Vladimir Birgus, Jan Mlcoch, Robert Silverio, Karel Srp, and Matthew Witkovsky." -- Publisher's description

ISBN:

0262025574
9780262025577
0262524589
9780262524582

Subject:

Rössler, Jaroslav, 1902-1990.
Rössler, Jaroslav.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Biographies.

Added entries:

Birgus, Vladimír, editor.
Mlčoch, Jan, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236940
Call No.: BIB 166787
Status: Available