David Heath

Dave Heath est né en Philadelphie en 1931 et a émigré à Toronto en 1970. Dave Heath s'intéresse à la photographie aprés avoir découvert le travail de Ralph Crane, L'histoire de Bad Boy, dans le magazine Life, en mai 1947, et le livre de John Whiting, la photographie est un langage. Dave Heath est fortement inspiré par les photographes Stieglitz, Minor White, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, et Nathan Lyons.

Son travail est représenté dans diverses collections, dont les Galeries nationales du Canada et des Etats non liés, le Musée d'Art Moderne de New York, le Philadelphia Museum of Art, l'Art Institute de Chicago, le Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, et collections privées en Amérique du Nord et en Europe. De plus, son travail a été publié dans des revues mai et représenté dans des anthologies et des histoires telles que Mirrors and Windows par John Szarkowski, La Photographie en Amérique par Richard Doty, magiciens de la lumière, par James Borcoman, et un siècle américain Keith Davis. La genèse et le développement de son livre très remarqué, Dialogue avec Solitude, et de ses photographies tout en servant un fantassin de combat en Corée ont été explorées par Michael Torossian dans ses livres improvisés et la Corée, publié par Lumiere presse en 1988 et 2004.



EXPOSITIONS SOLO CHOISIS
2002 Dave Heath, festival de la photographie de Hereford, Hereford, Angleterre
2001 Dave Heath, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
2000 Dave Heath: les années 1940 à 1960, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto
1999 Dave Heath: Vintage Photographs, Barry Galerie Chanteur, Petaluma, Californie
1997 un dialogue avec Solitude, Simon Lowinsky Gallery, New York
1994 un dialogue avec Solitude, Le Minneapolis Art Institute
1989 Lesley Walker: Une représentation de collaboration, Ryerson Bond Street Gallery, Toronto
1988 Dave Heath, travail des années 50 et 60, Galerie Photofind, New York
Le Plaisir de Voir; La Passion du Regard: Photographies 1963-1967, 1983-1988, Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, NY
Un dialogue avec Solitude, Le Musée de la photographie contemporaine au Columbia College, Chicago
Un dialogue avec Solitude, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles
1985 Dew mondiale, ou, Danse avec frénésie devant Dieu, Ryerson Bond Street Gallery, Toronto
1983 Dew mondiale, ou Danse avec frénésie devant Dieu, Red Eye Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1981 Songs of Innocence III, le Harbourfront, Toronto
Songs of Innocence IV, un dialogue avec Solitude, Galerie nationale du Canada, Ottawa
1979 Songs of Innocence II, Walter J. Phillips Gallery, Banff
1968 Dave Heath, Phoenix College Library, Phoenix
Dave Heath, Mise au point Gallery, San Francisco
1965 Work in Progress, Westbank Gallery, Minneapolis
Ni paix ni guerre, Edgecliff Académie des Beaux-Arts, Cincinnati
1964 Dave Heath: Photographies récentes, l'héliographie Gallery, New York
Un dialogue avec Solitude, Judson Memorial Church, New York
Un dialogue avec Solitude, La Camera Club Village, New York
1963 un dialogue avec Solitude, Art Institute of Chicago
Un dialogue avec Solitude, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
1961 Dave Heath, Galerie d'images, de New York
1958 ni paix ni guerre, 7 Arts Gallery Café, New York

David Heath, Dave, photographer (b at Philadelphia, Pa 27 June 1931). In his own emotionally charged photographs and curated slide shows, Dave Heath often explores alienation in North American society. His work draws loosely from his own personal experiences as an orphan and as an American combat soldier in the Korean War.

Dave Heath began photographing during the late 1940s. He briefly studied art at the Philadelphia College of Art and the Institute of Design in Chicago, supporting himself as an assistant to commercial photographers. By 1959, Heath was in New York where he studied with the ground-breaking photojournalist W. Eugene Smith. His subsequent work has been highly influenced by Smith's humanistic tone and emphasis on the photographic narrative.

Heath first came to prominence with the 1963 exhibition (and 1965 publication) A Dialogue with Solitude, a moving series of black and white images addressing contemporary isolation. Heath subsequently won two Guggenheim Fellowships. In the 1970s, after moving to Toronto, Heath began experimenting with Polaroid technology and produced a series of narrative works under the title Songs of Innocence.

In addition, Dave Heath has mounted several thematic slide presentations using vernacular photographs including Le Grand album ordinaire (1973) and Ars Moriendi (1980). In 1981 the NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA mounted an exhibition of the two series, A Dialogue with Solitude and Songs of Innocence IV. Since that time, Heath has exhibited across the United States and Canada including group and solo exhibitions at San Francisco Camerawork, Photofind Gallery (New York), Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto) and the CANADIAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY (Ottawa). His photographs are represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House (Rochester, NY), and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, among other institutions. From 1970 until 1997, Heath taught photography at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now RYERSON POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY) in Toronto. Since 2001, Heath has been producing digital colour work, a selection of which was published in his book, Dave Heath's Art Show, in 2007.