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- William Herbert Mortensen (January 27, 1897 – August 12, 1965) was an American glamour photographer, primarily known for his Hollywood portraits in the 1920s–1940s in the Pictorialist style.
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William Herbert Mortensen (January 27, 1897 – August 12, 1965) was an American glamour photographer, primarily known for his Hollywood portraits in the 1920s–1940s in the Pictorialist style. [ 1 ]
Dec 4, 2014 · The "colleague" Adams referred to was William Mortensen, one of the most popular and otherwise respected photographers of the 1930s, whose artistic techniques and grotesque, erotic subject...
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The Antichrist in Hollywood: William Mortensen and His Photography of the Grotesque. The artist left his mark on cinema by bringing his unusual taste and talent to studio photographs and films by DeMille and Tod Browning. Z. W. Lewis.
Jul 1, 2022 · William Mortensen was one of Hollywood’s most prolific glamour photographers, but his unconventional photographic techniques and his obsession with the macabre and the occult ensured that his once-illustrious career ended in ostracization and relative obscurity. William Mortensen, Obsession / Fear, c. 1930.
Oct 27, 2014 · Violence, nudity, and the occult collide in the photographs of William Mortensen, an American photographer who gained prominence in the 1930s and '40s but today largely exists as an obscure...
Artist and writer Larry Lytle presents a talk on the life and work of William Mortensen, America’s most hailed and hated art photographer who also collaborated with Manly P. Hall ...more.
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Nov 3, 2016 · William Mortensen (1897-1965) was an American art photographer, primarily known for his Hollywood portraits in the 1920s-1940s in the pictorialist style. Mortensen began his photographic career taking portraits of Hollywood actors and film stills.
