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Personal statement by US photographer Dave HEATH
"For me, the act of photographing is no more than making … diaristic notes that come out of engagement with the world. It is in my sequencing of photographs that I create poetic structure, a connective linkage, not chronological or narrative in development such as a photo-essay, but emotional in development." (Dave HEATH)
Background information
"Influenced by W. Eugene SMITH and photographers of the Chicago School including Aaron SISKIND and Harry CALLAHAN, Dave HEATH expresses above all his presence in the world by recognizing an alter ego in others absorbed in inner torment. To transform this experience into book form, he was guided primarily by concerns of sequence, particularly in 'The Americans' by Robert FRANK and 'American Photographs' by Walker EVANS.
Content
The out-of-print photo volume 'Dialogues with Solitudes' follows the radical 1965 book 'A Dialogue with Solitude' by Dave HEATH, which captures the restless zeitgeist of the sixties like a protest song." (© Steidl Verlag, 2018) "Conceived in 1961 & published in 1965, 'A Dialogue With Solitudes' by Dave HEATH is one of the most influential books of the decade, capturing the spirit of the times. In his own way, the U.S. photographer shows the predicament of the affluent society of post-war America, an age-old malaise, long before the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War.
Published for an exhibition in 2018, 'Dialogues With Solitudes' gathers iconic images and many unpublished pictures. Francesco Zanot placed the work of Dave HEATH in the history of American photography in a text which accompanies the images as well as an interview with the u.S. photographer conducted by Michael Torosian in 1988. Dave HEATH was one of the first, as early as the 1950s, to express so radically the feeling of alienation and isolation inherent in modern society and this is why he occupies a singular place in the history of American photography." (© Le Bal, 2018)