Heath, Dave

A Dialogue with Solitude [2000 LUMIERE DELUXE LTD ED W/ SIGNED PRINT "VENGEFUL SISTER, CHICAGO, 1956" - FINE CONDITON]

Lumiere, 2000. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Lumiere Press, Toronto, Canada. 2000. Hardcover in pitorial dust jacket issued with a SIGNED photogravure print "Vengeful Sister, Chicago, 1956", both are housed in a brown cloth slipcase. Limited SIGNED Slipcased Edition of only 100 copies issued with the print "Vengeful Sister, Chicago, 1956" SIGNED by Dave Heath, a dust-grained photogravure on Lana Gravure paper, the image measuring 5 1/8 x 6 3/8 inches (13x16.2 cm.), the sheet 12 1/4 x 9 inches (31.1x23 cm.), with Heath's signature and edition notation H/C in pencil; enclosed in a board folder with the printed information on the front and the edition information facing the image. 1956; printed 2000. Both the book and print are SIGNED and labled H/C (Hors du Commerce). 2nd Edition. Unpaginated with 83 duotone illustrations by Dave Heath. CONDITION: Fine (The Set). SIGNED Delixe Edition with photgravure print.

From Hugh Edwards' foreword: "A Dialogue With Solitude is a self-portrait in which the artist himself never really appears, but is revealed and interpreted by every detail. From the beginning of the sequence to its end, the viewer accompanies his unseen guide, out of darkness and troubled sleep, on a pilgrimage through an unpredictable environment where contradiction seems to be the only law. It is a solitude crowded with human beings, all of whom he recognizes and understands, but with whom he can make no exchange other than the gestures of an almost mechanical ritual. Along the way are pauses, marked by poetic quotations". Beginning with the Philadelphia native's tour of duty during the Korean war, "Dialogue"'s dark, murky images capture ten years of winding through an America seen through the shadows of Barnum, Sartre and Camus. With resonances of Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Lisette Model and Ed Van Der Elsken, Dave Heath's landmark book was a truly an innovative work upon its unheralded 1965 appearance, and remains one of the highlights of Post-war photographic literature. This 2000 Lumiere Press edition (cited on page 43 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter", and whose 1965 first edition is featured on page 104 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II") features the NovaTone printing process which gives a higher quality of reproduction than the original as well as a transcript of a letter from Robert Frank. Fine / fine. Item #5049

Price: $2,100.00