Me and Mortensen

Book excerpt: "In 1956 Robert Balcomb studied with American Master Photographer William Mortensen in his Laguna Beach studio. This long-awaited book on Balcomb's time with Mortensen is a richly illustrated, inside look at one of the world's finest Pictorialist photographers of the last century. The author delves into the lessons that he learned from the Master, and describes how he took the teachings and made them his own over a successful fifty-four-year career as a fine portrait photographer. In addition to the numerous photos and illustrations accompanying the text is a gallery of eighty-three portraits, still lifes, and pictorials from Balcomb's long career, and eight Mortensen prints-some being published for the first time."--dust cover.