What Was True: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393048241 ISBN 13: 9780393048247

Publisher: W. W. Norton, 2000

A collection of 145 stunning duotone photographs--including remarkable and diverse scenes of life in urban Brooklyn, coal-mining Kentucky, Haight-Ashbury, and Hindu India--is complemented by the notes and excerpts from the journals and correspondence of the enigmatic late photographer.

About the Author:

Margaret Sartor is a photographer and research associate at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She is the editor of Their Eyes Meeting the World by Robert Coles and, with Alex Harris, Gertrude Blom: Bearing Witness. Geoff Dyer is the author of seven books, including But Beautiful, Out of Sheer Rage, and, most recently, Paris Trance.