Dry Wash, West Slope Techachapi Foothills, California

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Dry Wash, West Slope Techachapi Foothills, 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: 1951
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

>Height--aeronautical altitude--is like sudden wealth. It buys detachment and new perspective, with some beautiful lies thrown into the bargain. Solo flight in a small plane is an excellent way of leaving behind one's lesser thoughts and one's smaller ideas. A dreary stretch of fallow farmland, from the air; a chill and brutish mile of city slum, from a plane window: in a grand sweep, these become positively magnificent sights. > >--Walker Evans

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