DAVE HEATH- MULTITUDE, SOLITUDE
2016-09-05The photographs of Dave Heath (1931-2016) evoke an intense, bittersweet vision of modern life. Abandoned by his parents at the age of four, he grew up in Philadelphia foster homes and an orphanage. This sense of physical and emotional homelessness shaped his artistic vision. Through the camera, Heath channeled his personal feelings into a deeper and larger statement about loss, uncertainty, pain, love and hope.
This exhibition surveys Heath’s classic work in black and white, from 1949 to 1969, centering on “A Dialogue with Solitude,” a celebrated sequence of 82 photographs created in the early 1960s. The exhibition concludes with a selection of his most recent work—color images made on the streets of New York and Toronto between 2001 and 2007.
Opposite – Kansas City, Missouri, 1967
Exhibition runs from November 19th, 2016 to March 19th, 2017
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4225 Oak Street
Kansas City
Missouri
MO 64111
