THE PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY
  • Home
  • ABOUT PRS
    • Manly P. Hall >
      • Manly Hall, A Personal Perspective
    • PRS Board & Staff >
      • PRS Announces New Executive Director Dennis Bartok
    • Contributing Artists >
      • Devon Deimler, Ph.D.
      • Mitch Horowitz
      • Mandy Kahn
      • Marina Pacowski
      • Lani Trock
      • Elizabeth T. Vazquez
      • Dustin Wong
    • Volunteer
  • Events
    • Online Classes
    • Videos on Demand
    • Podcasts
  • Library
    • Exhibitions
  • Gallery
  • PRS Journal
    • Journal Submissions
    • Past Issues >
      • Moon
      • Solar
      • Rebirth
    • Journal Subscribers >
      • 2022 Journal Subscription >
        • Re-Lighting the Fire
        • Lions Gate
        • Three Flames
        • Zoroaster
        • Phoenix Pyre
        • Spiritual Trickster
        • Serpent Symbolism
      • Past Issues >
        • July - Moon >
          • Light of the Moon
          • The Vault
          • The Tarot Painter
          • Moon Symbolism
          • Poet's Page
          • Moon Phase Astrology
        • June - Solar >
          • Green Lion
          • Mysteries of Light
          • Hermetic Light
          • Al-Kindi's De Radiis
          • The Poet's Page
        • May - Rebirth >
          • Nonsense
          • Mona Lisa
          • Pythagorean Initiation
          • Nahuatl Poem
  • Shop
    • New Arrivals
    • PRS Merch
    • Books by Manly P. Hall >
      • The Secret Teachings
      • The Signature Editions
      • New Editions for Contemporary Seekers
      • MPH Lecture Notes
      • MPH Essays
      • MPH Learning to Live Courses
      • MPH Book SALE
      • Manly P. Hall Book Bundles
    • MPH Audio >
      • MPH Collection at BetterListen.com
    • MPH E-Books
    • Reprint Series curated by MPH
    • Books and Catalogs >
      • Engage Exchange—A Monthly Reading & Discussion Group
      • Mitch Horowitz
      • Dr. Obadiah Harris
    • Gifts & Curiosities >
      • Gift Cards
    • Tote Bags
    • Rare and Used Books
    • Symbolic Prints and Posters
    • Tarot, Oracle, and Affirmation Decks
    • Curbside Pickup
    • Shipping Update
  • Support
  • Rentals
  • Books and Catalogs
  • >
  • American Grotesque: The Life and Art of William Mortensen

American Grotesque: The Life and Art of William Mortensen

SKU: 978-1936239979
$45.00
$45.00
Unavailable
per item

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.


Mortensen's countless technical innovations and inspired use of special effects prefigures the development of digital manipulation and Photoshop. Includes a gallery of more than one hundred striking photographs in duotone and color, many of them previously unseen, and accompanying essays by Mortensen and others on his life, work, techniques, and influence.


Feral House

hardcover

300 pages

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
2 available
Add to Cart
The Philosophical Research Society
3910 Los Feliz Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323.663.2167 
info [at] prs.org
​Covid Protocols
Picture
BOOKSTORE & HANSELL GALLERY:
Tuesdays-Fridays: 12-6 ​​pm
LIBRARY
​Fridays: Open to the Public 12-6 pm
​THE PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY IS A LOS ANGELES-BASED, NONPROFIT CULTURAL INSTITUTION FOUNDED IN 1934 AS A REPOSITORY OF MULTICULTURAL WISDOM SOURCES AND A CENTER OF LEARNING WITH A UNIQUE LIBRARY CONTAINING OVER 30,000 RARE VOLUMES.  ITS HISTORIC LANDMARK BUILDINGS ARE OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND PRESENT SEMINARS, CLASSES AND CONCERTS ON MYTHOLOGY, THE HUMANITIES AND METAPHYSICS.
© COPYRIGHT 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  • Home
  • ABOUT PRS
    • Manly P. Hall >
      • Manly Hall, A Personal Perspective
    • PRS Board & Staff >
      • PRS Announces New Executive Director Dennis Bartok
    • Contributing Artists >
      • Devon Deimler, Ph.D.
      • Mitch Horowitz
      • Mandy Kahn
      • Marina Pacowski
      • Lani Trock
      • Elizabeth T. Vazquez
      • Dustin Wong
    • Volunteer
  • Events
    • Online Classes
    • Videos on Demand
    • Podcasts
  • Library
    • Exhibitions
  • Gallery
  • PRS Journal
    • Journal Submissions
    • Past Issues >
      • Moon
      • Solar
      • Rebirth
    • Journal Subscribers >
      • 2022 Journal Subscription >
        • Re-Lighting the Fire
        • Lions Gate
        • Three Flames
        • Zoroaster
        • Phoenix Pyre
        • Spiritual Trickster
        • Serpent Symbolism
      • Past Issues >
        • July - Moon >
          • Light of the Moon
          • The Vault
          • The Tarot Painter
          • Moon Symbolism
          • Poet's Page
          • Moon Phase Astrology
        • June - Solar >
          • Green Lion
          • Mysteries of Light
          • Hermetic Light
          • Al-Kindi's De Radiis
          • The Poet's Page
        • May - Rebirth >
          • Nonsense
          • Mona Lisa
          • Pythagorean Initiation
          • Nahuatl Poem
  • Shop
    • New Arrivals
    • PRS Merch
    • Books by Manly P. Hall >
      • The Secret Teachings
      • The Signature Editions
      • New Editions for Contemporary Seekers
      • MPH Lecture Notes
      • MPH Essays
      • MPH Learning to Live Courses
      • MPH Book SALE
      • Manly P. Hall Book Bundles
    • MPH Audio >
      • MPH Collection at BetterListen.com
    • MPH E-Books
    • Reprint Series curated by MPH
    • Books and Catalogs >
      • Engage Exchange—A Monthly Reading & Discussion Group
      • Mitch Horowitz
      • Dr. Obadiah Harris
    • Gifts & Curiosities >
      • Gift Cards
    • Tote Bags
    • Rare and Used Books
    • Symbolic Prints and Posters
    • Tarot, Oracle, and Affirmation Decks
    • Curbside Pickup
    • Shipping Update
  • Support
  • Rentals