American Grotesque is a lavish retrospective of grotesque, occult, and erotic images by the forgotten Hollywood photographer William Mortensen (1897-1965), an innovative pictorialist visionary whom Ansel Adams called the -Antichrist- and to whom Anton LaVey dedicated The Satanic Bible .
Includes a gallery of more than one hundred.
Mortensen\'s countless technical innovations and inspired use of special effects prefigures the development of digital manipulation and Photoshop.
American Grotesque is a lavish retrospective of grotesque, occult, and erotic images by the forgotten Hollywood photographer William Mortensen (1897-1965), an innovative pictorialist visionary whom Ansel Adams called the -Antichrist- and to whom Anton LaVey dedicated The Satanic Bible
