Hills Terraced for New Orchards, Ventura, California

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Hills Terraced for New Orchards, Ventura, 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: 1979
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

>The plane is spare and cramped for a tall person like Garnett, the engine is loud, and the sound of rushing wind is persistent. Up there everything is the opposite of the calm, formality, stillness, and sense of complete control we see in the photographs, because in reality we were in constant motion, moving not just forward, but sometimes up, down, and sideways as the weather dictated. > >--Weston Naef on his experience flying with the artist

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