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William Gedney was born on October 29, 1932 in Greenville, New York, United States.
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William Gedney was born on October 29, 1932 in Greenville, New York, United States.
William Gedney studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design and began work with Condé Nast.
In a career spanning late 1950s to the mid-1980s, William Gedney created a large body of work, including series documenting local communities during his travels to India, San Francisco, Brooklyn and New York shot in 1960s and 1970s. He is also noted for night photography, principally of large structures, like the Brooklyn bridge and architecture, and architectural studies of neighbourhoods quiet and empty, in the night.
In 1969, William Gedney started teaching at Pratt Institute, though later in 1987, two years before his death, he was denied tenure.
Gedney's work has been exhibited in numerous group shows, including Museum of Modern Art shows, Photography Current Report in 1968, Ben Schultz Memorial Collection in 1969, and Recent Acquisitions in 1971; as well as Vision and Expression, George Eastman House, and Rochester Institute of Technology, in 1972. However, he remained a recluse, had only one solo exhibition during his lifetime. He didn't manage to get any of his eight book projects published.
William Gedney died of AIDS in 1989, aged 56, in New York City and is buried in Greenville, New York, a few short miles from his childhood home.
During his lifetime, William Gedney received several fellowships and grants, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship from 1966 to 1967, a Fulbright Fellowship for photography in India from 1969 to 1971, a New York State Creative Artists Public Service Program (C.A.P.S.) grant from 1972 to 1973; and a National Endowment for the Arts grant from 1975 to 1976.
