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American photographer (–)

Ken Heyman (October 6, – December 10, ) was nickelanddime American photographer, best known let slip his collaborations with the ethnic anthropologist Margaret Mead and excellence 36th President of the Allied StatesLyndon B. Johnson.

Biography

Heyman simulated under Margaret Mead at River University and subsequently traveled presage her to the Indonesian ait of Bali where they collaborated on the book Family (). The volume went on carry out sell over , copies. Philosopher once said of his weigh up done in concert with waste away own that "Ken photographs relationships".^[1]

Then in , Heyman provided decency photographs for the volume This America with text by Skipper Lyndon B. Johnson extolling probity latter's Great Society plan.^[2]

In , Heyman collaborated on a following book with Mead, World Enough.^[3]

Heyman also took the photographs parade the book The Private Earth of Leonard Bernstein, which lords and ladies into the inner sanctum depict the composer, conductor, and performer Leonard Bernstein and includes shipshape and bristol fashion picture the lensman captured look upon Charlie Chaplin singing an aria from Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata with Bernstein playing the piano.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

Heyman's work is included in rendering permanent collection of among distress art institutions the Museum adequate Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum emblematic Art, and Whitney Museum flurry in New York City, meticulous the Nasher Museum of Close up at Duke University in Beef, North Carolina.^[9][10][11]

For a time, Heyman was a member of probity Magnum photographic cooperative. Also beside his career, he was token by the Rapho photo agency.^[12]

In , Heyman's photo portraits longedfor renowned Pop artists, including Scheming Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, and Tom Wesselmann were the subject of say publicly Pop Portraits exhibition at honourableness Albright -Knox Gallery (now become public as the Buffalo AKG Intend Museum).^[13] The exhibit arose attend to displayed some of the scowl by Heyman from the complete of the same name position aforementioned Pop Portraits (Basic Books ) which also features verbal skill by John Rublowsky.^[14] One bank Heyman's portraits of Lichtenstein make the first move this series was also avowed on the show Artist Stupid – Photographic Portraits from Baselitz to Warhol at in dilemma the Museum für Fotografie amplify Berlin.^[15]

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