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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Archive of Documentary Arts
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- Night (318)
- San Francisco (62)
- Eric Hoffer and Lili Osborne (44)
- Knoxville, Tennessee (37)

Year
- 1960s (264)
- 1975 Dec. (36)
- 1975 (24)
- 1972 (21)

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- Composers, 1962-1968
- Cross Country, 1966-1967
- Europe, 1974-1982
- The Farm, 1950s
- India, 1969-1971 and 1979-1980
- Kansas, 1969
- Kentucky, 1964 and 1971
- Miscellaneous, 1958-1982
- New York, 1954-1984
- San Francisco, 1966-1967
- St. Joseph's School for the Deaf, ca. 1960
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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.

House at night with car parked out front.	Man Posing in Jeans.	Hoffer and Osborne at the beach; a gas station at night; buildings in a city.	Female nudes with mannequin.
Diner at night with billboards above it.	Sidewalk lined by houses on one side and cars and trees on the other at night.	Cafe at night with faded Coca-Cola advertisement painted on its side.	House at night.
Young man standing in line at the grocery store.	Ronson Studios window front at night.	House at night and a sign posted on a tree.	Front steps and door of house at night.
Luncheonette at night with long street stretching out in front of it.	Movie sets; costume makers; Adrienne Lobel?	Gas station at night.	House at night on corner with enormous tree in yard and car parked on street.
Gas station at night.	House at night with a basketball hoop and a parked van in front.	Garage sale; Eric Hoffer, Lili Osborne, and William Gedney.	House at night.
Townhouses at night.	House at night.	Knoxville structures at night.	Houses at night; grocery cart in alley.
House at night with a chain linked fence and cars parked out front.	House at night.	Townhouse at night with fern growing out front; traffic signs in foreground.	Houses at night.
Side of house and large tree at night.	Two men kissing.	Row houses at night with cars parked out front.	Side of building at night with traffic sign in foreground.

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