What was true: the photographs and notebooks of William Gedney

Abstract

"William Gedney died in 1989 at the age of 56. He left behind a lifetime of photographic work, most of it unknown outside of a few colleagues and curators. 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 worshipers, Gedney's unobtrusive view reveals the beauty and mystery of individual lives. Excerpts from Gedney's correspondence and notebooks help us discover this intensely private man."--Jacket.

Contents

Foreword / Maria Friedlander -- What was true / Margaret Sartor -- Photographs and notebooks -- New York: into the street -- Kentucky: short distances and definite places -- San Francisco: a drifting life -- India: bittersweet land -- Transcriptions and notes: someone else's blood -- A long patience / Geoff Dyer.