Arts > Photo > USA > Dave Heath   1931-2016

Washington Square, New York City, 1960.

Photograph: Dave Heath

Howard Greenberg Gallery

and Stephen Bulger Gallery

Dave Heath, Photographer of Isolation, Dies at 85

NYT

JULY 1, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/
arts/dave-heath-photographer-of-isolation-dies-at-85.html

Drowning Scene, Central Park, New York City, 1957.

Photograph: Dave Heath

Dave Heath: A Master of Photographing Solitude

Standing between documentary and art,

the black-and-white work of Dave Heath

captures the world as quiet and contemplative.

NYT

April 24, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/
lens/dave-heath-dialogues-with-solitudes.html

Dave Heath’s photographs

expressed his sense of urban isolation

and a yearning for personal connection.

Vengeful Sister, Chicago, 1956.

Photograph: Dave Heath

Howard Greenberg Gallery

and Stephen Bulger Gallery

Dave Heath, Photographer of Isolation, Dies at 85

NYT

JULY 1, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/
arts/dave-heath-photographer-of-isolation-dies-at-85.html

Dave Heath    1931-2016

photographer whose images

expressing

his sense of urban isolation

and a yearning

for personal connection

won a fervent group of admirers

despite his many years

of public obscurity

(...)

Although his lustrous

black-and-white prints

owed a lot

to the bleaching techniques

of W. Eugene Smith,

and though his poetic images

of people glimpsed in streets

and public parks sounded some

of the same broken chords

as those struck

by his friend Robert Frank

in his book “The Americans,”

Mr. Heath was in many ways

a school of one.

His photographs,

notably collected

in his signature work,

the 1965 book

“A Dialogue With Solitude,”

reflected his own

troubled experience.

Born on June 27, 1931,

but quickly abandoned

by his parents,

David Heath

(he was named David

after a maternal great-grandfather,

a rabbi in Russia)

was raised in an orphanage

and a series

of foster homes in Philadelphia.

His discovery of photography

as a teenager was his salvation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/
arts/dave-heath-photographer-of-isolation-dies-at-85.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/
lens/dave-heath-dialogues-with-solitudes.html

https://blogs.mediapart.fr/guillaume-lasserre/blog/230918/
dave-heath-et-la-poetique-de-lisolement

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/
arts/dave-heath-photographer-of-isolation-dies-at-85.html

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