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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.

William Mortensen

Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.

William Mortensen

William Mortensen

William Mortensen

Born: January 27, 1897

Died: August 12, 1965 (aged 68)

Bio: 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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