Dave Heath

A first edition, presentation copy of A Dialogue with Solitude.

• Dave Heath (American).
• Foreword by Huw Edwards.
• New York: Culpeper, A Community Press Publication distributed by Horizon Press, 1965.
• 100 pages.
• Quarto.
• Includes black-and-white photographs printed in offset.
• Inscribed to Hilary Gerrard, Ringo Starr's manager for over thirty years and a director of the Beatles' company, Apple Corps.: "To Hilary – / with warm regards, in appreciation / of your regard for my work – / Dave Heath."
• Bound in tan cloth-covered boards, titles stamped to spine in brown, with photo-illustrated dust jacket, text in black.

Dave Heath's reputation largely rests on this book, in which he reflects and responds to the alienation that was particularly prevalent in post-war North American society. It was published in 1965, but most of the photographs were taken earlier, including several that he made in Korea in 1953 while serving in the US Army. Heath briefly studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and was strongly influenced by W. Eugene Smith, dedicating A Dialogue with Solitude to him.