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Home > Contents > People > Photographers > William A. Garnett

Names:
Other: William Garnett 
Dates:  1916, 27 December - 2006, 26 August
Born:  US, IL, Chicago
Died:  US, CA, Napa
Active:  US
Gender:  Male
 
  
American photographer who takes abstract aerial photographs of the Californian landscape from a light plane.

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Readings on, or by, individual photographers 
  
Garnett, William, 1996, William Garnett: Aerial Photographs, (University of California Press) isbn-10: 0520083482 isbn-13: 978-0520083486 [Δ] 
  
 
  
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com		 
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William Garnett at his hangar at Napa Airport, California, USA 
1987, May
 
  
Family history 
  
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Internet biographies

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Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer.Show on this siteGo to website
Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
 

Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.] 
  
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.221-222 
  
• Evans, Martin Marix (Executive ed.) 1995 Contemporary Photographers [Third Edition] (St. James Press - An International Thomson Publishing Company) [Expensive reference work but highly informative.] 
  
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on William A. Garnett.] 
  
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.148-149 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.] 
  
 

Useful printed stuff

If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here.

 
• Szarkowski, John 1973 Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art) p.170 [Analyzes a single photograph by William A. Garnett.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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