Okay. The Last Of William Gedney In The Coal Fields. I SWEAR.

6 images that could not be denied. They have digitized only 10% of his work, which amounts to 50,000 pieces. Mouse over the lower edge to start.

William Gedney, Eastern Kentucky Coal Fields, 1964. Duke University Library, Special Collections

Boy Smoker-Eastern Kentucky 1964 Photo By William Gedney

Boy covered by dirt smoking cigarette with one hand, holding can of tobacco in other.

Collection: William Gedney Photographs and Writings
Category: Photographs
Category: Kentucky, 1964 and 1971
Type: Photographs
Box Number: 76
Negative Number: 1245-12-28
Exposure: 1964
Year: 1964
Print: Unknown
Photographer: Gedney, William Gale, 1932-1989
Mark: Stamp
Subject: Cornett Family
Item Number: KY0178

Duke University Library, Special Collections

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
919-660-5822
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.

50,000 item collection, Duke University Libraries Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library Duke University