William Mortensen was a real black sheep among the American photographers between two World Wars. He was famous for his dark and grotesque photographs. He wanted to create art, not just to shoot what was in front of him, so he imitated the pictorial paintings from the romanticism period. Although it was quite gothic and scary, his work was very popular at the time, getting him critical acclaim and publications in magazines such as Vanity Fair. Sex and violence were popular and intriguing, both on film and in pictures.
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