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Thoughts and emotions cannot be photographed, despite the protestations of some mystically minded portraitists. Physical fact is ultimately the sole pictorial material.
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Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.
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William Mortensen
Born:
January 27, 1897
Died:
August 12, 1965
(aged 68)
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William Mortensen was an American art photographer, primarily known for his Hollywood portraits in the 1920s-1940s in the pictorialist style.
Known for:
Monsters and Madonnas (1936)
How to Pose the Model (1956)
Print finishing (1938)
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