William Gedney Photographs and Writings: Photographs

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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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- Cornett Family (921)
- Benares, India (688)
- Calcutta, India (360)
- San Francisco (346)

Year
- 1972 (868)
- ca. 1970 (792)
- 1966 or 1967 (405)
- 1967 (400)

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Knoxville at night.	Portraits of Virgil Thomson.	Boy plays with quilts between two beds while baby on floor looks on.	John Cage playing electronic chess with John Kobler in a dark room.
Knoxville at night.	Unidentified composer sitting and smoking in shadows.	Man and woman in front of van.	Two people in ceremonial dress sitting in elevated seats in large seated crowd.
On a porch, a woman holds a baby while a man sits beside her smoking.	Man in park.	Two men talking, on man in car.	Woman getting off of bus.
Man crouching down, smoking a cigarette, looking at the camera.	Two men sitting on ground by street, boy playing with one man's hair.	Two girls outside having fun.	Man and woman kissing in a park with other people in background.
Woman praying at an altar on the street corner.	Elephant kneeling while carrying men in ornate seat on its back; Maharaja of Benares?	Two women on porch.	Milton Babbitt working with electronic equipment.
House at night with tree in foreground.	Two women walking on street in rain with the wind blowing their head covering.	Young man leaning over onto the hood of a truck.	Poker game
Profile of Willie Cornett looking out from his porch, man holding child sitting on a chair behind him.	Willie Cornett and son playing checkers on porch.	Child weaving on a loom.	Crowd scenes.
Family on porch.	Two couples on the beach.	George Crumb and dogs.	View From Gedney's Window of Myrtle Avenue

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