Dave Heath

David Martin "Dave" Heath (June 27, 1931 – June 27, 2016) was an American documentary and humanist photographer, whose most famous work was candid street photography. He was a mostly self-taught photographer.[1]

He was born in Philadelphia and was inspired by Life magazine, most notably an article Bad Boy's Story by Life photographer Ralph Crane in 1947, and the 1946 book Photography is a Language by John R. Whiting.[2]

He was drafted in 1952 and served in Korea, taking many photographs of his experiences there.[1] On his return he attended Philadelphia Museum College, followed by Philadelphia College of Art during the year 1954-1955 and then moved to Chicago to study at the Chicago Institute of Design, the next year in 1955-1956.[3] In 1959 he attended the New School for Social Research in New York City, where he settled.[3] He emigrated to Toronto in 1970.[2] Heath's best known published photographic work is the monograph A Dialogue with Solitude (1965; reprinted, 2000). In 2015 a retrospective of his work was hosted by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and is currently on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Dave Heath, Photographer of Isolation, Dies at 85, by RICHARD B. WOODWARD, The New York Times, JULY 1, 2016
  2. 1 2 Biography on Joseph Bellows Gallery website
  3. 1 2 Dave Heath in the RKD
  4. ↑ Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath, September 19, 2015 - February 21, 2016, Philadelphia Museum of Art website
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