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    William Mortensen: A Revival: The Strange Case of William Mortensen

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    I have published quite a bit of material on William Mortensen in my Internet

    magazine, TheScreamOnline, with articles and galleries by his protege, Robert

    Balcomb, and the emminent Mortensen scholar, Larry Lytle. Use this link to

    view the main feature in the premier issue: http://www.thescreamonline.com/

    photo/photo06-01/mortensen/index.html. Included are WM's original pigment

    process notes, on loan from Mr. Balcomb, which were finally donated to the

    CCP in Arizona. Consult the site map in the magazine where photography

    features for all 14 issues thus far are listed together.

     

    I am glad that WM has finally come to be recognized for the Master that he

    truly was. In this day and age of the digital camera and Photoshop, it can be

    difficult for some to understand why he was ostracized for work that is now

    so popular, and he was certainly ahead of his time in creating visionary work

    entirely by hand. WM was a lover of the Classics, as is borne out in his paean

    to previous masters in "Monsters and Madonnas." Whilst there are many who

    so hastily rushed to denigrate his work, I doubt that anyone can truly criticize

    the man's sense of composition.

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