Occupation: Photographer Media: Chromogenic Print, Journals, Digital Color. Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1931.
Education Philadelphia Coll Art, 54-55. New Sch, with W Eugene Smith, 59 & 61.
Teaching Positions Instr photog, Sch Dayton Art Inst, 65-67; asst professor photog, Moore Coll Art, Philadelphia, 67-70; professor photog, Ryerson Polytech Univ 70-96; adjunct faculty, Visual Studies Workshop, 76-77.
Business and Professional Positions Artist in residence, Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, 65 & International Center for Photography, New York, 78.
Commissioned Works Collab with Robert Frank, Robert Heinecken & John Wood, William Johnson & Susan Cohen (director), 83-85.
Public Works Nat Gallery Canada, Ottawa; CMCP, Ottawa; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Int Mus Photog, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Minneapolis Inst Art; Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, MO; and others.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, A Dialogue with Solitude, Eastman House, Rochester & Art Institute of Chicago, 64 & Minneapolis Art Inst, 94, Le plaisir de voir, la passion du regard, Light Impressions Spectrum Gallery, Rochester, 88, Photofind Gallery, New York, 88, Lesley Walker, a collaborative portrayal, Artscourt, Ottawa, 89, ADWS (master set & layout maquette), Simon Lowinsky, New York, 97, Barry Singer Gallery, Petaluma, California, 99, Howard Greenberg, New York, 2001, Hereford Photography Festival, Hereford, England, 2002; Group exhibs, Nat Gallery Canada, 67, 74 & 81; Photog in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 74; Mirrors & Windows: America Photog since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 78; Songs of Innocence, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, 81; The Street, Canada Mus Contemporary Photog, 2006 ; plus others.
Bibliography Charles Hagen (author), Le grand ALBUM ordinaire, Afterimage Visual Studies Workshop, 2/74; James Borcoman (author), David Heath: a dialogue with solitude, J 34, Nat Gallery of Canada, 10/79; Michael Torosian (author & editor), David Heath, Extempore, Reflections on Art & Personal History, Lumiere Press, Toronto, 88 & 2004; Michael Torosian (author & editor), Korea, Photographs 1953-1954, Fiftieth Anniversary Portfolio, Lumiere Press, Toronto, 2004.
Publications Author, A Dialogue with Solitude, Community Press, 1965, 2nd edit, Lumiere Press, 2000; contributor, Photography in the 20th Century, 67; Photography in America, 75; Mirrors and Windows, 78; Magicians of Light, 80; Wonderland, 99; Dave Heath's Art Show, Anonymous Press, Toronto, 2007; Art Show, 2007.
Honors and Awards Guggenheim Found Fellow, 63 & 64.
Dealers Steven Bulger Gallery 700 Queen St East Toronto Ontario Canada M6J; Howard Greenberg 4 E 57th Ste 1406 New York New York 10022.
