Blow Out Dunes, Death Valley, California

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Blow Out Dunes, Death Valley, California

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William A. Garnett

American Photographer · 1916–2006

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> I was discharged and heard you could hitchhike on the transport taking GIs home. The airplane was full, but the captain let me sit in the navigator's seat so I had a command view. I was amazed at the variety and beauty of these United States. I had never seen anything like that--in a book, in school, or since then. So I changed my career. > > --William Garnett William Garnett took his first cros

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Date: 1954
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Blow out dunes are caused by high winds that blow away sand and uproot vegetation, thus widening the gaps between existing dunes and then destroying them. Resembing either a close-up of the peeled bark of a fir tree or a cross section of an ant colony, this crisp photograph is reminescent of nature studies made in the 1930s by photographers like Edward Weston and Albert Renger-Patzsch.

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