George Eastman Museum In his essay, "Fallacies of 'Pure Photography,'" Mortensen challenged the assumptions of Group f/64 by stating: "Purists and puritans alike have been marked by a crusading devotion to self-defined fundamentals, by a tendency to sweeping condemnation of all who over-step the boundaries they have set up, and by grim disapproval of the more pleasing and graceful things in life."
William Mortensen, "Fallacies of 'Pure Photography,'" Camera Craft, vol. 41 (June 1934), 260-61.
