Dave Heath :: Magnitude, Solitude

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Ted Forbes

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🗓️ 15 March 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Book - Dave Heath, Multitude Solitude http://amzn.to/22fko2C Dave Heath was part of the New York school of photographers in the 1950's along side visionaries such as W Eugene Smith, Diane Arbus, Gary Winogrand and Robert Frank. He was a 2 time Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and most known for his seminal book, A Dialogue with Solitude. SPONSOR This episode is sponsored by Squarespace for a free trail and 10% off your order, visit http://squarespace.com and use offer code AOP on checkout. Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedforbes Instagram: http://instagram.com/tedforbes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aop.podcast Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tedforbes Website: http://theartofphotography.tv And get on our mailing list to stay up to date on photography news and the latest episodes: http://theartofphotography.tv/about/mailing-list/ Ted Forbes The Art of Photography 3100 Main St #135 Dallas, Texas 75226 Thanks for watching - if you like this video, remember to share it with your friends! My name is Ted Forbes and I make videos about photography. I’ve been making photographs most of my life and I have a tremendously deep passion for photography that I want to share with you on YouTube. The Art of Photography is my channel and I produce photography videos to provide a 360 degree look into the world of making images. We all want to get better so lets do this together! I make videos covering famous photographers, photography techniques, composition, the history of photography and much more. I also have a strong community of photographers who watch the show and we frequently do social media challenges for photographers to submit their own work. I feature the best and most interesting on the show when we do these so come check it out and get involved!

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0:00.0	Today I've got a book that I want to share with you guys. This is called Magnitude
0:17.9	Solitude, The Photographs of Dave Heath. This is an incredible book. In fact, I think it is probably one of the most incredible photography books that I bought in the last couple of years.
0:27.0	I want to share this with you and I will link it up in the show description if you guys are interested in getting a copy for yourself but I want to talk
0:33.4	about Dave Heath because Dave Heath is a photographer that most people are not familiar with
0:38.0	and I think he's a photographer that everybody should be familiar with.
0:40.8	Dave is a, it was part of the New York photography scene in
0:45.2	the 1950s and 1960s which included people like W. Gene Smith and Robert
0:49.9	Frank and I think what's important to understand is that Dave is a little bit younger than those guys, and he was actually influenced by their work, and that had a great deal of impact on his development as a photographer.
1:01.0	The other thing that I think is important to understand is Dave's
1:03.6	upbringing in his childhood because he did not have it easy. Dave was born in
1:07.6	1931 in Philadelphia and both of his parents had abandoned him by the age of four.
1:13.5	His grandparents then put him into a series of Jewish orphanages that he grew up in and having
1:18.0	only one parent Jewish, he stated that he never really felt a sense of home or belonging and in fact by the time he was 10 he started getting into trouble and
1:27.0	Oddly enough that what got him interested in photography was looking at magazine spreads and the photo essays that were coming out at that time and in
1:34.4	particular in this book he cites that there was one of them that was a photo essay on the growing,
1:39.9	I guess epidemic of orphanages and children without parents in the United States.
1:44.0	He said that through the photographs and through the essay, it was one of the first times he really
1:48.0	felt a connection that he belongs to something and it was a part, somebody like kind of figured out who he was and
1:53.7	through the help of a mentor that he had at the time he built his first
1:56.9	camera and started taking pictures. This is really important I think when he
2:00.9	start looking at Dave's work in the context of mid-century
2:04.0	photography particularly that New York school because some of the common themes that you're
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