Hungarian born painter, sculptor, photographer, graphic designer and theorist. His vision of nonrepresentational art (art in which the portrayal of things from the visible world plays no part, it consists largely of elements that can be called abstract) was immensely infulential in the mid 20th century.
As well as his paintings, he is famous for creating photograms - unique photographic images made without using a camera. He placed objects on photographic paper and exposed the whole thing to light, after a time the contours and shadows of the objects left light surfaces on the dark background of the support. (Example below.) He then sometimes had these photograms photographed and enlarged, a process that blurred the traditional distinction between an original and its reproduction.
He also made 'photoplastics' - his take on photomontage, which combined found imagery and drawings...
His tradtional lens based photography was taken using unusual angles & perspectives that were inspired by the diagonals of constructivist art. He was extremely innovative, he was once quoted saying that "The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century."
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