William Garnett's Poetic Vision With Aerial Photography

William A. Garnett, a pioneer of aerial photographs that revealed unusual land patterns died at the age of 86.

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September 9, 2006, 5:00 AM PDT

"William A. Garnett, who pioneered a fine art genre with his sweeping aerial photographs of sand dunes, swamps and the rich geometry of plowed fields, has died. He was 89. [According to the J. Paul Getty Museum, his photos] reveal astonishing patterns that are not seen from the ground."

â€œOne of Garnett's early commercial jobs from the air was a portfolio of photographs tracing the rapid development of the Southern California community of Lakewood...Even after 50 years, those beautiful and terrible photographs are used to indict suburbia....He thought urban sprawl was an ugly problem."

Thanks to D. A. Varnado, AICP

Read the full story: William Garnett, 89; Took Aerial Photography to Artistic Heights

Tuesday, September 5, 2006 in The Los Angeles Times

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