What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney
2000
$103.00
First edition of What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney by Margaret Sartor and Geoff Dyer. First impression. Medium format hardback in near fine condition. Some minor shelf wear to the top edge, and some sunning to the spine, of the dust jacket only.
About
An extraordinary and stirring collection of photographs and 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 and curators, including John Szarkowski, Lee Friedlander, and Diane Arbus. These photographs--taken primarily in New York, San Francisco, Kentucky, and India--are remarkable in their sympathetic and quietly sensual view of the world. They illuminate the rare, lyrical vision of a photographer whom, while living a highly reclusive personal life, was able to record the lives of others with remarkable sensitivity and poignancy.
