More William Gedney-Two Girls Holding Hands, Eastern Kentucky, 1964

Two girls with dirty clothes holding hands.
Eastern Kentucky coal fields, 1964

Archive of Documentary Arts
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Item Details
Item Number:
KY0168
Photographer:
Gedney, William Gale, 1932-1989
Year:
1964


More: William Gedney
Photographs And Writings

From the mid 1950s through the early 1980s, William Gedney (1932-1989) photographed throughout the United States, in India, and in Europe. From street scenes outside his Brooklyn apartment 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 recorded the lives of others with remarkable clarity and poignancy. These photographs, along with his notebooks and writings, illuminate the vision of an intensely private man who, as a writer and photographer, revealed the lives of others with striking sensitivity. Included here are selections from Gedney's finished prints, work prints, contact sheets, notes, notebooks, handmade photographic books, book dummies, and correspondence.

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