A Dialogue With Solitude

Item Details

New York, The Community Press, 1965, Hardcover

First Edition, Good +

First edition of Heath’s seminal photobook, widely regarded as one of the most emotionally resonant and psychologically complex photo-essays of the 20th century. A landmark of American photographic literature, A Dialogue with Solitude merges deeply personal reflection with poignant images of urban isolation and introspection.

Tall quarto. Grey cloth over boards with pictorial dust jacket. Unpaginated but 92pp. With the photographer's signed inscription to the title page. Dear Marilyn- / to share with you this small / measure of my life's / meaning / with affection / Dave / May Day 1968. Very good condition throughout. Dust jacket shows some distress with closed tears to edges and small loss to bottom of spine along with some discoloration.

"A Dialogue With Solitude, an incomparable book that James Borcoman, curator of photography at the National Gallery of Canada, has described as the most important book by a photographer to appear in the 1960’s. A Dialogue With Solitude was the product of more than a decade of personal exploration in photographic self-expression and the resolution of Heath’s creative search to enunciate his statement in the visually poetic form of sequence." - Museum of Contemporary Photography.