Ken Heyman (October 6, 1930 – December 10, 2019) was an American photographer, best known for his collaborations with the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead and the 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson.
Heyman studied under Margaret Mead at Columbia University and subsequently traveled with her to the Indonesian island of Bali where they collaborated on the book Family (1965).
[1] Then in 1966, Heyman provided the photographs for the volume This America with text by President Lyndon B. Johnson extolling the latter's Great Society plan.
[3] Heyman also took the photographs for the book The Private World of Leonard Bernstein, which peers into the inner sanctum of the composer, conductor, and musician Leonard Bernstein and includes a picture the lensman captured of Charlie Chaplin singing an aria from Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata with Bernstein playing the piano.
[12] In 2007, Heyman's photo portraits of renowned Pop artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, and Tom Wesselmann were the subject of the Pop Portraits exhibition at the Albright -Knox Gallery (now known as the Buffalo AKG Art Museum).