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Sewage Tank, Santa Paula, California
Creator
William A. GarnettAmerican Photographer · 1916–2006
All works by this person →> 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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- 1953
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Gliding on a shaft of air in his Cessna 170-B plane, Garnett created a picture that resembles the work of Abstract Expressionist painters of the 1950s such as Clyfford Still and Robert Motherwell. While he pointed his camera out the window, Garnett maneuvered the plane until he could frame the perpendicular lines of the tank off-center, waiting until the dried ground in the empty tank looked like a mosaic of cracked paint before snapping the shutter.
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