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NAPA, Calif., Sep 5, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Photographer William A. Garnett, who pioneered the art of aerial photography, has died in California at age 89.
Garnett -- whose half-century career spanned police, commercial, sports and art photography -- died Aug. 24 at his home in Napa, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
Garnett may have not been the first photographer to shoot from the sky, but the images he snapped from his Cessna 170B in 1955 expanded the boundaries of what could be done with aerial photography, the Times said.
Among his better known photos were "Sand Dune Number 1 Death Valley" and "Snow Geese Over Lake Buena Vista."
He won three Guggenheim awards that helped finance his art work, the newspaper said. He also served on the faculties at the University of California Berkley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Garnett is survived by his wife, Eula Beal Garnett, three sons and three grandchildren.
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