William Gedney Photographs and Writings: St. Joseph's School for the Deaf, ca. 1960

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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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- 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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In the late 1950s, William Gedney phototgraphed the children and teachers at St. Joseph's School for the Deaf. It's not clear whether this project was commissioned or it was self-initiated. Some of the photographs were eventually reproduced in a small booklet about the school.

Girl at table working on math problems.	Children in classroom, at table; teacher working with children individually at table.	Boy looking up at teacher with flowered shirt.	Girl at crowded table.
Teacher working with two boys.	African-American student swinging in schoolyard; school in background.	Two students sitting at desks.	Teacher working with female student at window-lit table.
Student looking at chalkboard as teacher observes.	Exterior of school with blossoming trees; boy reaching up toward tree branches.	Children painting; girl with phonograph, working at table; teachers working with children; classroom.	Boy sleeping with bird on his back.
Boy fingerpainting.	Teacher working with male student at chalkboard.	African-American girl with hearing aid laughing.	Boy writing on paper in window-lit hallway with Christ figure.
Students running.	Teacher playing tambourine with laughing girl.	Teacher working with boy wearing headphones and holding yardstick.	African-American teacher instructing boy.
Close-up of frustrated boy with hearing aid.	Boy reading a book with African-American teacher looking on.	Women with boy holding trophy.	Teacher kneeling and talking to boy sitting in chair.
Teacher working with four students at a table in classroom.	African-American teacher instructing boy.	Small girl reaching up to teacher.

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