William Garnett's Poetic Vision With Aerial Photography

"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."

“One 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