The Sixties Catalogue

T h e S I X T I E S 28 Inscribed By Dave Heath 26. HEATH, Dave. A Dialogue with Solitude. New York, 1965. Quarto, original gray cloth, dust jacket. $6000. Click for more info First edition of Heath’s seminal photobook, featuring 82 vibrant duotone photographic plates, inscribed: “To Kazuo Okamoto—My best wishes, Dave Heath.” “Working under the heady influences of Robert Frank, Aaron Siskind and Eugene Smith, Heath forged a style that felt at once intimate and reportorial… Dialogue with Solitude is a period piece that resonates” ( Village Voice ). Extremely scarce first edition; signed copies are rarely seen. Images clean and bright, very small trace of label removal to front free endpaper; some soiling, chipping mildly affecting spine lettering of scarce unrestored dust jacket. An extremely good copy, very scarce inscribed. “A poignant and powerful look at the human animal.” —Feature Shoot