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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)
Bio: William Mortensen was an American art photographer, primarily known for his Hollywood portraits in the 1920s-1940s in the pictorialist style.
Known for:
  1. Monsters and Madonnas (1936)
  2. How to Pose the Model (1956)
  3. Print finishing (1938)
  4. William Mortensen

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