Photographs, Including Works from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
Photographs, Including Works from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
Dave Heath
'NYC' (Failed Resuscitation, Central Park, New York City)
Lot Closed
November 16, 12:09 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Dave Heath
1931 - 2016
'NYC' (Failed Resuscitation, Central Park, New York City)
gelatin silver print, signed in ink in the margin, signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'ADWS negative' and 'master print' in pencil on the reverse, circa 1957, printed no later than 1962
image: 16.5 by 24.1 cm (6½ by½ in.)
Michael Torosian, Lumiere Press, Toronto, 2011
Dave Heath, A Dialogue with Solitude (Culpeper, Virginia, 1965), unpaginated
Keith F. Davis, Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), p. 144, pl. 63
“Heath was striving to realize his highest ambition as an artist – a rich, bittersweet meditation on the human condition — in a cultural climate of dire fear.”
Keith F. Davis, Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath (New Haven, 2015), p. 31
Dave Heath received critical acclaim for his 1965 groundbreaking book A Dialogue with Solitude, a collection of photographs made in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. The images expressed the somber, post-war state of the American people and the ironic solitude of life in urban centers. The present photograph was selected for inclusion in this carefully edited and poetic volume. Heath began work on A Dialogue with Solitude in 1961 and would continue reworking its contents and sequencing over the next four years. A Dialogue with Solitude quickly went out-of-print and remains highly sought-after by photobook collectors. A modern edition was re-issued in 2000 by Lumiere Press.
Prints of any of Heath's photographs are scarce. At the time of this writing, no other print of this image is believed to have appeared at auction.