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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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- Unidentified Composer (82)
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- 1967 (237)
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Composers, 1962-1968 - 589 Items
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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 William Gedney did not receive final notification that the book would not be published until 1975.
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