Books

  • Mortensen, William. The Seven Ages of Women. Self Published, Hollywood, 1927. Original book, signed, composed of 9 [frontispiece + title page + 7] original photographs. Quarter leather spine, splitting and missing a portion. #16/20. Contents of this are excellent. RARE!
  • Mortensen, William. Monsters & Madonnas, 1936 First Edition.. SF: Camera Club Pub., Co., 1936. 1st edition. In the original, thin paper dust wrapper & shipping carton. Scarce.
  • Mortensen, William. Monsters & Madonnas, 1936 Third Edition. SF: Camera Club Pub., Co., 1936, 3rd printing, 1946.
  • Mortensen, William. Monsters & Madonnas: 1967 Edition. Hollywood: Jacques de Langre, 1967. 11 x 14 hardbound. Full Color plates, duotones and black and white images. The true, revised edition. First edition of this format.
  • Mortensen, William. Monsters & Madonnas: 1967 Edition (With Paper Negative). Hollywood: Jacques de Langre, 1967. 11 x 14 hardbound. Full Color plates, duotones and black and white images. The true, revised edition. First edition of this format. This copy contains a paper negative by Mortensen. Probably unique in this format. No other copies known. RARE!
  • Mortensen, William. The Command to Look. SF: Camera Club Pub. Co., 1937. 1st ed., 4th printing. Ex. cond. In spiral plastic binding.
  • Mortensen, William. The Model. SF: Camera Club Pub. Co., 1937. 1st ed. in dust jacket.
  • Mortensen, William. The Model. SF: Camera Club Pub. Co., 1951. 2nd ed., revised.
  • Mortensen, William; Dunham, George. How to Pose the Model. SF: Camera Club Pub. Co., 1956, 3rd. ed. in dust jacket. [A riff on The Model, pub. with his main male model as co-author]
  • Mortensen, William; Dunham, George. How to Pose the Model. SF: Camera Club Pub. Co., 1956, 3rd. ed, 2nd printing, 1960. in dust jacket
  • Mortensen, William. Pictorial Lighting. SF: Camera Club Publishing. Co., 1937. 1st ed., 4th printing, 1937, in dust jacket.
  • Mortensen, William. Pictorial Lighting. SF: Camera Club Publishing Co., 1947. 2nd ed. in dust jacket.
  • Mortensen, William. Projection Control. SF: Camera Club Publishing Co., 1934. 2nd ed., revised & enlarged, 5th printing, 1938.
  • Mortensen, William. The New Projection Control. SF: Camera Craft Publishing Co., 1942. 3rd ed., revised & enlarged, 2nd printing, 1944.
  • Mortensen, William. Flash in Modern Photography. SF: Camera Craft Publishing Co., 1941. 1st ed. in dust jacket.
  • Mortensen, William. Print Finishing. SF: Camera Club Publishing Co., 1938. 1st ed. in dust jacket.
  • Mortensen, William. Outdoor Portraiture. SF: Camera Club Publishing Co., 1940. 1st ed. in dust jacket.
  • Mortensen, William. Mortensen on the Negative. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. ex. lib. pc.
  • The Associated Students of Berkeley California. The Blue & Gold - A Complete Record of the College Year of 1925-1926. Berkeley, CA, 1926. All illustrations [32 full page] by William Mortensen
  • Dawson, Michael. William Mortensen - a Revival. Tucson: CCP, 1998. Wraps, as issued

Pamplets

  • Mortensen, William. Projection Control. SF: Camera Craft Publishing Co., 1934. Wraps [soft cover
  • Mortensen, William. The Female Negative. Newport Beach, CA: Jay Curtis Publishers, 1954. Wraps.
  • Mortensen, William. The Paper Negative. Newport Beach, CA: Jay Curtis Publishers, 1954. Wraps.
  • Mortensen, William. The Texture Screen. Newport Beach, CA: Jay Curtis Publishers, 1954. Wraps.

Magazines (All having articles or illustrations by or about Mortensen.)

  • International Photography. March, 1941
  • Journal of American Photography. Jan, 1983
  • PSA Journal. June, 1971
  • PSA Journal. Oct., 1982
  • Camera, The Journal of the LA Center for Photographic Studies. Vols 1 & 2. Nov.-Dec., 1980
  • Peterson's Photographic. July, 1978
  • The Museum of California, The Oakland Museum. Dec., 1979
  • Camera Arts. Jan.-Feb., 1982
  • Collector's Photography. Jan.-Feb., 1987

Exhibition Catalogues

  • The Photographic Magic of William Mortensen.. The Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, 1979
  • The Mortensen Collection of the Photographic Society of America. c. 1960
  • Paul Anderson / William Mortensen.. Center for Creative Photography, May - July, 1983

Ephemera

  • Souvenir Program of the 16th Annual Festival of Arts. Laguna Beach, California. 1951
  • William Mortensen School of Photography. Laguna Beach, California. c. 1945
  • William Mortensen School of Photography. Laguna Beach, California, c. 1950's
  • William Mortensen School of Photography. Laguna Beach, California, c. 1950's
  • William Mortensen School of Photography. Laguna Beach, California, c. 1950's, with the original shipping envelope
  • William Mortensen School of Photography. Laguna Beach, California, c. 1960
  • Sheet of unused stationary with unaddressed envelope from the Mortensen School of Photography. Laguna Beach, California
  • Printed publication from the Certified Milk Produces of Southern California with Mortensen content..
  • Paperbound program from the Western Amateur Camera Conclave, Second Annual Convention.. Oakland, CA 1941. Lectures, one of which was about Mortensen's "Abrasion Powder Tone Process." Mortensen had a one-man exhibition at this event. Program inserted.