This image of a young U.S. soldier during the war in Korea captures a private moment of thought or prayer.  Human sorrow and alienation are subjects which Dave Heath (b.1931) has returned to time and again - as reflected in the title of his photographic essay, A Dialogue With Solitude.

 

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Howard Crawford, Jr., Korea 

Dave Heath, 1953/54
vintage gelatin silver print
6.75″ × 9.75″