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The 50,000 item collection documents Gedney's work from the 1950s to 1989. Subjects include photographs of cross country road trips; rural New York; Manhattan; Brooklyn; rural Kentucky; Hippies in San Francisco; composers; gay rallies and demonstrations; St. Joseph's School for the Deaf; India; England; Ireland; France; and, a large number of nocturnal pictures.

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All his life, William Gedney had an interest in serious music, and around 1965 he began a series of portraits of American composers. Over several years, Gedney wrote to the composers he wanted to photograph and arranged visits to make pictures of them at work in their home or studio. Eventually, Gedney produced a book dummy of this series, choosing photographs of fifty composers, each represented by one or two portraits. The project was accepted and scheduled for publication in 1969 by Crowell, Collier, and Macmillan, Inc., but unfortunately, the book's author failed to deliver a text. William Gedney did not receive final notification that the book would not be published until 1975.

Close shot of Diamond.	John Cage reads while others in room sit and sleep on floor; store fronts; Gordon Mummer, David Tudor, and David Behrman connecting wires and working on electronic chess board; Cage out on street.	Sydeman sitting near window.	Portraits of Virgil Thomson.
John Cage playing electronic chess with John Kobler in a dark room.	Unidentified composer sitting and smoking in shadows.	Milton Babbitt working with electronic equipment.	George Crumb and dogs.
Arthur Berger.	Harrison at a diner; coffee mug on table.	Unidentified composer standing in front of piano.	Gian-Carlo Menotti working with performers.
Charles Wuorinen lecturing to a music class.	Harry Partch sitting at table smoking a pipe.	Harry Partch smoking a cigar.	Foss conducting.
Howard Hanson.	Unidentified composer conducting.	Unidentified composer at work; Roy Harris and wife outdoors; Karlheinz Stockhausen in rehearsal space.	Man composing at piano.
Harris sitting in a chair thinking.	Menotti instructing woman.	Unidentified composer in study; Another unidentified composer working at desk, smoking pipe.	Samuel Barber in forest; people drinking and socializing at party.
Roy Harris sitting on ledge outdoors; Harris with St. Bernard; Unknown composer in black turtleneck outdoors.	Thomson on phone.	Copland on a couch holding his glasses.	Weisgall seated in chair near table with statuette. Bookcase and glass door in background.
George Rochberg seated outside; New York Sunday School Parade.	Lukas Foss conducting.	Charles Wuorinen lecturing in front of a music chalkboard.	Roy Harris standing in doorway.

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