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William mortensen 27 january 1897 12 august 1965 was an american art photographer, primarily known for his hollywood portraits in the 1920s1940s in the pictorialist style. Anton lavay founder of the satanic church had even dedicated the satanic bible to no other than william mortensen. He openly courted controversy with his devilish ideas, and he used books and articles as a platform to disseminate the mortensen methods, lytle writes in an introductory essay to mortensen and coauthor george dunhams the command to look. Larry lytle mortensen with electric bromoil apparatus, mortensen works on a print of his paramour, actress jean harlow editors note. Reproduced here in full, this book includes an essay by michael moynihan on how its images influenced the occult lesser. The command to look was one of william mortensen s most influential and soughtafter books, and has been out of print for fifty years. William mortensen is the author of the command to look 4. William mortensens featured books the command to look. William mortensens 20th century photos are some of the. Now that smartphones have become the camera of choice, it seems strange that photographers once belonged to divergent schools that battled one another, and sometimes quite viciously at that.
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