Dave Heath: Alone, together

5 March 2023 0

For its spring 2023 programme, Galerie Miranda is delighted to present an exhibition of vintage photographs by Dave Heath (1931-2016, US/Canada), the first European gallery exhibition of Dave Heath’s work. Entitled Alone, together, the exhibition at Galerie Miranda presents emblematic works that express Heath’s central themes of loneliness and alienation in modern society. Influenced by W. Eugene Smith, in whose…

Dave Heath: Dialogues with Solitudes

25 September 2018 0

Dave Heath occupies a unique place in the history of American photography. Influenced by W. Eugene Smith and the photographers of the Chicago School, including Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan, he cannot, however, be considered as either a documentary or an experimental photographer. His photography is above all a way of bearing witness to his presence in the world by…

Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath

20 February 2017 0

The 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,…

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