Gregory Heisler

Gregory Heisler (born 1954) is an American photographer known for his evocative portrait work often found on the cover of magazines, such as Time, for which he has produced a number of Man, Person, and People of the Year covers.

Heisler once had his White House photographer privileges revoked after taking a photograph of President George H. W. Bush for Time magazine in which Heisler used in camera techniques of double exposure to show what the cover labeled the two faces of Bush.

Bush press secretary Marlin Fitzwater later wrote about his own anger over this incident in his memoir Call the Briefing!

[1] Heisler's trade group protested the ban because it was based on an editorial opinion that was expressed.

Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University as a distinguished professor of photography, according to an announcement by the NPPA on April 25, 2014.