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New York CityArtwork Info About the Artist Artist Docs Artist News 1958 Gelatin silver print mounted to period board Provenance: Exhibited in Dialogues with Solitude at Le Bal, Paris, 2018 and The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2019 Printed circa 1962 LP 130. 4 SBG DH 0099 COF By the age of four, Dave Heath (1931 2016) had been abandoned by both of his parents. By the age of fifteen he had lived in a series of foster homes and, finally, in an orphanage. Given

and the body as a site of action or violence

and worked solely as an artist until his untimely death in 2007

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child-adult hybrid dolls from the 1940s

“My work has been based largely on systems of identification

He creates a world filled with disfigured bodies in elaborate allegorical tableaus that never cease to engage and repulse

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of the compositions he saw around him

he has produced several long-term projects linked conceptually by their serial and episodic structure

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Horace Gordon Cox (1885-1972) was an accomplished Pictorialist Photographer of his time

Cole’s process and aesthetic has taken on that of a painter