Street at night with man sleeping.

Item Information

• Description
  Featured in retrospective exhibition, Short Distances and Definite Places: The Photographs of William Gedney at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), January 20, 2000 - May 16, 2000; Featured in What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney, edited by Margaret Sartor, coedited by Geoff Dyer; Gedney's caption from Japan Correspondence: On hot summer nights people sleep outside on porches and on the roofs of buildings not because of poverty but to escape the heat. It is much cooler outside and no one will bother you. Mark: Signature/Stamp. Date of print: 1971 Sept..

• Item ID
  IN0013
• DCMI Type
  Still Image
• Subject
  India
• Title
  Street at night with man sleeping.
• Creator
  Gedney, William Gale, 1932-1989
• Genre
  photographs
• Negative Number
  I 950-1
• Date
  ca. 1970
• Box Number
  86
• Type
  black-and-white photographs
  documentary photographs

• Copyright & Usage
  See the policy for this collection.