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William Mortensen was an American art photographer, primarily known for his Hollywood portraits in the 1920s-1940s in the pictorialist style.
He preferred the pictorialism style of manipulating photographs to produce romanticist painting-like effects. The style brought him criticism from straight photographers of the modern realist movement and, in particular, he carried on a prolonged written debate with Ansel Adams.