William Mortensen

1897 – 1965

American glamour photographer, primarily known for his Hollywood portraits in the 1920s–1940s in the Pictorialist style.

• Pictorial lighting
• The paper negative
• The command to look
• The model
• The new projection control
• The photographic magic of William Mortensen
• Flash in modern photography
• Monsters and Madonnas (Literature of Photography)
• Outdoor portraiture
• Print finishing
• American grotesque
• American Grotesque: The Life and Art of William Mortensen