I love William Gedney's images. Beautiful, Intimate, American, Dignified.
"William Gedney died in 1989 at the age of 56. He left behind a lifetime of photographic work, most of it unknown outside a few colleagues and curators, John Szarkowski, Lee Friedlander and Diane Arbus among them. These photographs - taken primarily in New York, San Francisco, Kentucky and India - are remarkable in their sympathetic and quietly sensual view of the world. Gedney's unobtrusive view reveals the beauty and mystery of individual lives. They illuminate the rare, lyrical vision of a photographer who, while living a reclusive personal life, recorded the lives of others with remarkable sensitivity and poignancy."
-Review of his stunning book What Was True
He isn't as well known as I think his images warrant. Enjoy some of my favorites!
This is my favorite Gedney picture. The lighting in this shot is so lovely and it feels exactly like childhood.
Happy Wednesday, friends!
xo
Amy
ps: Want more Gedney? Check out this lovely spread in the beautiful Ahorn Magazine, too! Or Buy William Gedney: What was True here.