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American nightmares: the photography of William Mortensen Black Mass, Edward Weston, American Photography, Photographs Of People, Ansel Adams, Portrait Artist, American Art, Dark Art, Human Silhouette

Witches, gargoyles, demons, crucifixions … William Mortensen’s grotesque photographs are being reassessed – with a new book of his life and work, republication of his own book on photography and psychology, and exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles and Seattle. All images by William Mortensen

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Somewhere in a dark room almost a century ago, an image emerges of a woman with her skeleton lover. Beside it, another of a gyrating goblin, a pin-up worthy witch, or some other creature from the wonderfully twisted mind of photographer William Mortensen. Today, Mortensen is praised as a pioneer of

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William Mortensen (January 27, 1897 – August 12, 1965) was an American photographer, primarily known for his Hollywood portraits in the 1920s–1940s in the Pictorialist style and occult-themed works that were controversial in their time. A print of this image hung in the Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey's “Black House” in San Francisco in the 1960s.

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