What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney
by Margaret Sartor
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An extraordinary & stirring collection of photographs & writings by an enigmatic photographer whose work is published here for the first time. William Gedney died in 1989 at the age of fifty-six. He left behind a lifetime of photographic work, most of it unknown outside of a few colleagues & curators, including John Szarkowski, Lee Friedlander, & Diane Arbus. These photographs-taken primarily in New York, San Francisco, Kentucky, & India-are remarkable in their sympathetic & quietly sensual show more view of the world. They illuminate the rare, lyrical vision of a photographer who, while living a highly reclusive personal life, was able to record the lives of others with remarkable sensitivity & poignancy. From the commerce of the street outside his Brooklyn apartment window to the daily chores of unemployed coal miners, from the indolent lifestyle of hippies in Haight-Ashbury to the sacred rituals of Hindu worshippers, Gedney's unobtrusive view reveals the beauty & mystery of each individual life. Excerpts from Gedney's correspondence & notebooks help us discover this intensely private man who captured the people & place surround him with such striking clarity & intimacy. show lessTags
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Margaret Sartor teaches at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
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