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Product Identifiers
PublisherFeral House
ISBN-101627310010
ISBN-139781627310017
eBay Product ID (ePID)201610936
Product Key Features
Book TitleCommand to Look : a Master Photographer's Method for Controlling the Human Gaze
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicTechniques / General, General, Individual Photographers / Artists' Books, Occultism
IllustratorYes
GenreBody, Mind & Spirit, Photography
AuthorGeorge Dunham, William Mortensen
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight10.4 Oz
Item Length7 in
Item Width5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewsThere's a reason why Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, called upon Mortensen's artistic aesthetic and psycho-optical theories when creating LaVeyan Satanism and iconography of the Church. But you don't have to be the Black Pope to appreciate or make use of Mortensen's trademark techniques for commanding the gaze. - The Alibi Command to Look ... influential, especially in renegade realms. Feral House simultaneously published the exquisite compendium American Grotesque.... -- Shawn Macomber, Fangoria Mortensen was a giant, and it is time to acknowledge his stature. Buy both of these new books. But be warned: if you do, you may well find yourself haunting used bookshops and the internet to round out your collection with everything he ever wrote. -- Amateur Photographer, There's a reason why Anton Szandor LaVey, founder of the Church of Satan, called upon Mortensen's artistic aesthetic and psycho-optical theories when creating LaVeyan Satanism and iconography of the Church. But you don't have to be the Black Pope to appreciate or make use of Mortensen's trademark techniques for commanding the gaze. - The Alibi Command to Look … influential, especially in renegade realms. Feral House simultaneously published the exquisite compendium American Grotesque…. — Shawn Macomber, Fangoria Mortensen was a giant, and it is time to acknowledge his stature. Buy both of these new books. But be warned: if you do, you may well find yourself haunting used bookshops and the internet to round out your collection with everything he ever wrote. — Amateur Photographer
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal779.2092
Table Of ContentCONTENTS The Story of The Command to Look: William Mortensen, Creative Pictorialism and the Psychology of Control by Larry Lytle The Command to Look by William Mortensen and George Dunham Foreword 1. Personal Questions 2. Personal History--Origin of the Formula 3. The Pictorial Imperative 4. Analysis of the IMPACT 5. Subject Interest--Sex, Sentiment, and Wonder 6. You and the Picture 7. Putting the Formula to Work 8. Preface to the Pictures Fifty-five Salon Prints with Comments Infernal Impact: The Command to Look as a Formula for Satanic Success by Michael Moynihan
SynopsisWilliam Mortensen's irreverent and revolutionary book on photography and psychology is available again after a 65-year banishment., The Command to Look is considered one of Mortensen's most momentous and rare books. Until now, copies on the antiquarian book circuit sold for many hundreds of dollars. It is a crucial book for understanding both Mortensen's philosophy and his use of psychology in the making of his pictures. To illustrate the text Mortensen includes an amazing gallery of his best-known and most challenging images with explanations, by him, of what makes those photographs so compelling. The reprint of The Command to Look also contains two new major essays that assess the significance and impact of the original book. An introduction by Mortensen biographer Larry Lytle explores Mortensen's use of Jungian psychology and also discusses new advances in neural psychology that confirm Mortensen's methods of controlling the viewer's eye. The second essay, by historian Michael Moynihan (author of Lords of Chaos ), details a strange and unexpected reception of the book: how this small volume on photographic methods played a role in the creation of the modern Church of Satan and Anton LaVey's theories about Satanic Magic., William Mortensen began his photographic career taking portraits of Hollywood actors and film stills. 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, who called Mortensen The Devil' and 'The Anti-Christ'. The Command to Look was one of William Mortensen's mostsought-after books, and has been out of print for over 50 years.'
LC Classification NumberTR680
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- 19. Feb. 2020
William Mortensen
I was unfamiliar with this photographer until a few years ago, but find these surreal photos equal if not superior to Man Ray!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
