“WILLIAM MORTENSEN: CELLULOID BABYLON”

March 9 & 10, 2019, Sheraton Central Park / Times Square 811 7th Avenue New York

The New York City Book and Ephemera Fair celebrates William Mortensen’s golden Hollywood years with a special exhibition curated by Brian Chidester, courtesy of the Stephen Romano Gallery.

The exhibition will feature works from William Mortensen’s personal collection that have never been shown before, as well as works from the estate of his first wife Courtney Crawford that will also be exhibited for the first time ever.

still from 1926 John Griffith Wray film “Hell’s Four Hundred” featuring mask and costume by Mortensen

His work was startling and new. It had the power to surprise, shock, even haunt the viewer. William Mortensen was a highly controversial artist during his lifetime, stirring up the photographic world in the early twentieth century with images that were in direct opposition to the prevailing realism of his contemporaries. Today we recognize Mortensen as the trailblazer he was —the first to use highly manipulated imagery in a way that wasn’t embraced until Photoshop almost a century later.

March 9 & 10, 2019, Sheraton Central Park / Times Square 811 7th Avenue New York

Fair hours are: Saturday, March 9, 2019, 8AM – 4PM Sunday, March 10, 2019, 9AM – 3PM

Where: Sheraton Central Park / Times Square 811 7th Avenue New York, NY, 10019

Admission: $15 each day, With student ID – Free

William Mortensen “Celluloid Babylon”

see more about Mortensen @ : LEXICON MAG

For further information and visuals contact Stephen Romano at 646 709 4725 or email at romanostephen@gmailcom or Brian Chidester at bcxists@gmail.com