[1][2] Heath's books include A Dialogue with Solitude (1965).
In 2015, a retrospective of his work was hosted by Philadelphia Museum of Art.
[3] He was inspired by Life magazine, most notably the article "Bad Boy's Story: An Unhappy Child Learns to Live at Peace with the World"[1] by Life photographer Ralph Crane in 1947, and the 1946 book Photography is a Language by John R.
[7] In 1959, he attended The New School for Social Research in New York City, where he settled.
[8][better source needed] In the late 1950s, he made street photographs of people in Washington Square Park in New York City, later collected in the book Washington Square (2016).