Strip Farm, East Slope of the Tehachapi Mountains

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Strip Farm, East Slope of the Tehachapi Mountains

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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: 1951
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

To visually balance this image, Garnett burnt in a shadow in the lower left corner. While printing the image in the darkroom, he held something (perhaps a card) over the paper except at the corner. Because it was exposed to light longer, the corner darkened.

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