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'''Abigail Heyman''' (August 1, 1942 - May 28, 2013) was an American [[feminist]] and [[photojournalist]], known for her 1974 book, ''[[Growing Up Female|Growing Up Female: A Personal Photo-Journal]]''.<ref name="nytobit">Paul Vitello, [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/arts/design/abigail-heyman-feminist-photojournalist-dies-at-70.html "Abigail Heyman, Feminist Photojournalist, Dies at 70"] (obituary), ''[[New York Times]]'', June 9, 2013.</ref> |
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| name = Abigail Heyman |
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| birth_name = Abigail Heyman |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1942|08|01}} |
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| birth_place = [[Danbury, Connecticut]], U.S. |
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|08|28|1942|08|01}} |
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| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. |
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| alma_mater = [[Sarah Lawrence College]] |
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| occupation = Photographer, photojournalist, educator |
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'''Abigail Heyman''' (1942–2013) was an American photographer, photojournalist, and educator. She was the a department director and a teacher at the [[International Center of Photography]] in Manhattan, in the mid-1980s until the 1990s. |
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| ⚫ | Heyman was born in Danbury, Connecticut, to real estate developer Lazarus Heyman and Annette Heyman. Abigail was the second of two children. Abigail was the younger sister to her brother, Samuel J. Heyman who was born March 1, 1939. Heyman married for the first time at the age of 23, after graduating from college. She then married her second husband in 1978, with whom she had a son named Lazar Bloch. |
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| ⚫ | Heyman was born in Danbury, Connecticut, to real estate developer Lazarus Heyman and Annette Heyman. Abigail was the second of two children. Abigail was the younger sister to her brother, businessman [[Samuel J. Heyman]], who was born March 1, 1939. Heyman married for the first time at the age of 23, after graduating from college. She then married her second husband in 1978, with whom she had a son named Lazar Bloch. |
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== Education and Published Works == |
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Heyman died on May 28 at the age of 70 due to heart failure. She is survived by her mother, Annette Heyman, of Palm Beach, Florida, and her son, Lazar Bloch, of Brooklyn, New York.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Foerstner |first=Abigail |date=26 June 1987 |title=Photographer Captures More Than The Pomp at Weddings |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |issn=2165-171X |id={{ProQuest|291031860}}}}</ref> |
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== Education and published works == |
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| ⚫ | Heyman attended [[Sarah Lawrence College]] with intentions of becoming a writer, and graduated in 1964. She began the study of photography once she was out of college and attended some photography workshops. Heyman continued to gain knowledge about photography through freelance shooting.<ref name=":0" /> Her first photography exhibit was in New York 1972 and in 1974 she published the book that won her acclaim, ''Growing Up Female: A Personal Photo-Journal''.<sup>[1]</sup> For the book, she photographed women in their everyday, limited roles. There are young girls playing with dolls, housewives caring for screaming infants, strippers, and young women waiting to be asked to dance. She called the work "one feminist's point of view" of the narrow range of choices women had in life. In the most controversial and striking images, she photographed herself having an abortion. The book sold over 35,000 copies, which is rare for photograph collections. She soon after published another book, this time focusing on working women: ''Butcher, Baker, Cabinetmaker'' (1978).<ref name="nytobit">Paul Vitello, [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/arts/design/abigail-heyman-feminist-photojournalist-dies-at-70.html "Abigail Heyman, Feminist Photojournalist, Dies at 70"] (obituary), ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 9, 2013.</ref> Later on, in 1987, Heyman published another book titled, ''Dreams and Schemes: Love and Marriage in Modern Times.'' This book contained black and white photographs with whole extended families of the bride and groom's children from former marriages.<ref name=":1">{{cite news|title=DREAMS AND SCHEMES A SPECTATOR'S VIEW OF THOSE WHO SAY 'I DO': [FINAL EDITION, C]|last=Heyman|first=Abigail|date=21 June 1987|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|id = {{ProQuest|291022241}}}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Along with her other responsibilities related to her company, Heyman took the time to focus on wedding |
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== The wedding project == |
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| ⚫ | Along with her other responsibilities related to her company, Heyman took the time to focus on wedding photography as a personal project. This project developed from her work documenting family life and her reflections in deciding to marry a second time. In attending over 200 weddings by the age of 44, Heyman discovered that every wedding has its own story. She sought to find this story, along with the reasoning as to why people get married.<ref name=":1" /> Heyman fully immersed herself into her photography sessions at weddings by not only acting like a guest with a camera, but by engaging with the couples through questions.<ref name=":1" /> She also photographed weddings because there was something in her own weddings that remained unresolved.<ref name=":1" /> Going to other people's weddings with a camera has put her in touch with her personal drama, too.<ref name=":1" /> |
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== Career == |
== Career == |
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Heyman was the first woman to be invited, by [[Charles Harbutt]], into the photographer's collective [[Magnum Photos]], where she was active from 1974 and 1981.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Unsung American Female Photographers of the Past Century |url=https://time.com/4259851/photography-women/ |access-date=2022-12-06 |website=Time magazine |date=23 March 2016 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite magazine |last= |first= |date=2019-11-01 |title=Abigail Heyman's Groundbreaking Images of Women's Lives |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/abigail-heymans-groundbreaking-images-of-womens-lives |access-date=2022-12-06 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |publisher=Condé Nast |language=en-US}}</ref> Heyman was also a photojournalist, her work appearing in ''Time'', ''Life'', ''Ms''., ''Harpers'' and ''The New York Times Magazine''. |
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In the mid-1980s she was director of the documentary and photojournalism department at the International Center of Photography (now International Center of Photography) in Manhattan.<ref name="nytobit" /> In the 1990s, Heyman joined the International Center of Photography in Manhattan as director of the documentary and photojournalism department.<ref name="nytobit" /> |
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In 1981, Heyman, along with Harbutt, Mark Godfrey, Mary Ellen Mark, and Joan Liftin, co-founded Archive Pictures Inc., an international documentary photographers' cooperative agency in New York City.<ref name=":2" /> |
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| ⚫ | During her busy career in the 1980s, Heyman filed a lawsuit on her brother, Samuel, in 1982. She filed for breach of trust as a fiduciary in certain family trusts. However, her brother denied these charges and the claim was dismissed.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hicks |first=Jonathan P. |date=18 December 1985 |title=Heyman of Gaf: Tough Tenacious |journal=[[The New York Times]] |id={{ProQuest|425727838}} }}</ref> Though her work is most identified with the Feminist Movement, the specificity and deeply psychological nature of what she captured transcended the movement itself.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/arts/design/abigail-heyman-feminist-photojournalist-dies-at-70.html|title=Abigail Heyman, Feminist Photojournalist, Dies at 70|last=Vitello|first=Paul|date=2013-06-08|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-03-21}}</ref> As Ms. Liftin told ''The New York Times'' this June, "As a feminist, she was not so much about marching. She took pictures that showed what the marching was about."<ref name=":2" /> |
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== Archive and legacy == |
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Heyman's photographic work is preserved at [[Mana Contemporary]] in Jersey City, New Jersey.<ref name=":3" /> |
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In 2019, Heyman was part of the exhibition, "Eve Arnold, Abigail Heyman, and Susan Meiselas: Untouched Women" held at [[Rencontres d'Arles|Arles Les Rencontres de la Photography]].<ref>{{cite web |last1= |first1= |date=2019 |title=Eve Arnold, Abigail Heyman and Susan Meiselas |url=http://www.rencontres-arles.com//en/expositions/view/775/eve-arnold-abigail-heyman-susan-meiselas |accessdate=2019-07-02 |website=Les Rencontres d'Arles}}</ref> |
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== Bibliography == |
== Bibliography == |
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* {{Cite book |title=Growing Up Female: A Personal Photo-Journal |title-link=Growing Up Female |publisher=Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc |year=1974 |isbn=9780030124518 |location=New York, NY}} |
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* ''Butcher, Baker, Cabinetmaker'' (1978) |
* ''Butcher, Baker, Cabinetmaker'' (1978) |
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* ''Dreams & Schemes: Love and Marriage in Modern Times'' (1987) |
* ''Dreams & Schemes: Love and Marriage in Modern Times'' (1987) |
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* Editor, with Ethan Hoffman and Alice Rose George, ''Flesh & Blood: Photographers' Images of Their Own Families'' (1992) |
* Editor, with Ethan Hoffman and [[Alice Rose George]], ''Flesh & Blood: Photographers' Images of Their Own Families'' (1992) |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Latest revision as of 00:02, 2 August 2024
Abigail Heyman | |
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| Born | Abigail Heyman August 1, 1942 Danbury, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Died | August 28, 2013 (aged 71) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Sarah Lawrence College |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer, photojournalist, educator |
Abigail Heyman (1942–2013) was an American photographer, photojournalist, and educator. She was the a department director and a teacher at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan, in the mid-1980s until the 1990s.
Family life
[edit]Heyman was born in Danbury, Connecticut, to real estate developer Lazarus Heyman and Annette Heyman. Abigail was the second of two children. Abigail was the younger sister to her brother, businessman Samuel J. Heyman, who was born March 1, 1939. Heyman married for the first time at the age of 23, after graduating from college. She then married her second husband in 1978, with whom she had a son named Lazar Bloch.
Heyman died on May 28 at the age of 70 due to heart failure. She is survived by her mother, Annette Heyman, of Palm Beach, Florida, and her son, Lazar Bloch, of Brooklyn, New York.[1]
Education and published works
[edit]Heyman attended Sarah Lawrence College with intentions of becoming a writer, and graduated in 1964. She began the study of photography once she was out of college and attended some photography workshops. Heyman continued to gain knowledge about photography through freelance shooting.[1] Her first photography exhibit was in New York 1972 and in 1974 she published the book that won her acclaim, Growing Up Female: A Personal Photo-Journal.[1] For the book, she photographed women in their everyday, limited roles. There are young girls playing with dolls, housewives caring for screaming infants, strippers, and young women waiting to be asked to dance. She called the work "one feminist's point of view" of the narrow range of choices women had in life. In the most controversial and striking images, she photographed herself having an abortion. The book sold over 35,000 copies, which is rare for photograph collections. She soon after published another book, this time focusing on working women: Butcher, Baker, Cabinetmaker (1978).[2] Later on, in 1987, Heyman published another book titled, Dreams and Schemes: Love and Marriage in Modern Times. This book contained black and white photographs with whole extended families of the bride and groom's children from former marriages.[3]
The wedding project
[edit]Along with her other responsibilities related to her company, Heyman took the time to focus on wedding photography as a personal project. This project developed from her work documenting family life and her reflections in deciding to marry a second time. In attending over 200 weddings by the age of 44, Heyman discovered that every wedding has its own story. She sought to find this story, along with the reasoning as to why people get married.[3] Heyman fully immersed herself into her photography sessions at weddings by not only acting like a guest with a camera, but by engaging with the couples through questions.[3] She also photographed weddings because there was something in her own weddings that remained unresolved.[3] Going to other people's weddings with a camera has put her in touch with her personal drama, too.[3]
Career
[edit]Heyman was the first woman to be invited, by Charles Harbutt, into the photographer's collective Magnum Photos, where she was active from 1974 and 1981.[4][5] Heyman was also a photojournalist, her work appearing in Time, Life, Ms., Harpers and The New York Times Magazine.
In the mid-1980s she was director of the documentary and photojournalism department at the International Center of Photography (now International Center of Photography) in Manhattan.[2] In the 1990s, Heyman joined the International Center of Photography in Manhattan as director of the documentary and photojournalism department.[2]
In 1981, Heyman, along with Harbutt, Mark Godfrey, Mary Ellen Mark, and Joan Liftin, co-founded Archive Pictures Inc., an international documentary photographers' cooperative agency in New York City.[6]
During her busy career in the 1980s, Heyman filed a lawsuit on her brother, Samuel, in 1982. She filed for breach of trust as a fiduciary in certain family trusts. However, her brother denied these charges and the claim was dismissed.[7] Though her work is most identified with the Feminist Movement, the specificity and deeply psychological nature of what she captured transcended the movement itself.[6] As Ms. Liftin told The New York Times this June, "As a feminist, she was not so much about marching. She took pictures that showed what the marching was about."[6]
Archive and legacy
[edit]Heyman's photographic work is preserved at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey.[5]
In 2019, Heyman was part of the exhibition, "Eve Arnold, Abigail Heyman, and Susan Meiselas: Untouched Women" held at Arles Les Rencontres de la Photography.[8]
Bibliography
[edit]- Growing Up Female: A Personal Photo-Journal. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, Inc. 1974. ISBN 9780030124518.
- Butcher, Baker, Cabinetmaker (1978)
- Dreams & Schemes: Love and Marriage in Modern Times (1987)
- Editor, with Ethan Hoffman and Alice Rose George, Flesh & Blood: Photographers' Images of Their Own Families (1992)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Foerstner, Abigail (26 June 1987). "Photographer Captures More Than The Pomp at Weddings". Chicago Tribune. ISSN 2165-171X. ProQuest 291031860.
- ^ a b c Paul Vitello, "Abigail Heyman, Feminist Photojournalist, Dies at 70" (obituary), The New York Times, June 9, 2013.
- ^ a b c d e Heyman, Abigail (21 June 1987). "DREAMS AND SCHEMES A SPECTATOR'S VIEW OF THOSE WHO SAY 'I DO': [FINAL EDITION, C]". Chicago Tribune. ProQuest 291022241.
- ^ "The Unsung American Female Photographers of the Past Century". Time magazine. 23 March 2016. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
- ^ a b "Abigail Heyman's Groundbreaking Images of Women's Lives". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
- ^ a b c Vitello, Paul (2013-06-08). "Abigail Heyman, Feminist Photojournalist, Dies at 70". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ^ Hicks, Jonathan P. (18 December 1985). "Heyman of Gaf: Tough Tenacious". The New York Times. ProQuest 425727838.
- ^ "Eve Arnold, Abigail Heyman and Susan Meiselas". Les Rencontres d'Arles. 2019. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
