William Gedney Photographs and Writings: Miscellaneous, 1958-1982

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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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Wherever William Gedney went, he photographed, and many of the pictures he made over his long photographic career were not part of specific projects or series. When visiting the Cornetts in eastern Kentucky in 1972, for example, Gedney made night forays into Knoxville, Tennessee to photograph. In 1975, funded by a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Gedney returned to California, photographing in San Francisco and in Los Angeles. A number of the photographs in Gedney's ongoing Night Series fall into this miscellaneous catagory.

Row of stores with car parked out front.	Hardware store window front at night.	Knoxville at night.	Knoxville at night.
House at night with tree in foreground.	House at night for sale.	Gas station at night.	Lili Osborne with children in a classroom; Adrienne Lobel at home.
Gas station at night.	Gas station at night with street lamp glowing brightly.	Gas station at night.	Parked cars lining both sides of the street at night with street light shining through the trees.
Row of houses at night with a street lamp glowing at the end of the road.	House at night with picket fence in front.	Houses at night with car parked out front; the houses look to be mirror images of each other.	Boy in a costume.
Female nudes posing.	Family outdoors; people working in yard; bathroom.	Man Sleeping in the Nude.	Car parked along curb under trees at night.
Houses at night.	Theatre at night.	House at night.	Movie sets; weightlifters on a beach boardwalk.
Corner store at night.	House at night with parked car and lamp post out front.	Movie sets.	Store front/barbershop at night.
Richard Gedney and family in living room, outdoors; children playing in the neighborhood street; woman with a horse.	House with many large trees and a wrought iron fence at night night.	House at night with a stone eagle on covered porch and a truck parked out front.	House at night with enormous tree in yard.

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