Artist Index: Heyman, Ken

"Railsplitter, Nigeria". 1960. Vintage gelatin silver print. 35 x 27,5 cm. Signed by the photographer in ink lower right in margin; 3 photographer's copyright/stamps as well as signed, dated and annotated by the photographer in pencil on the verso.
Ken Heyman worked on assignments for Life magazine, and as a student of the anthropologist Margaret Mead he became her photographer for over twenty years. He also worked for Magnum and Rapho and published numerous books. – Tear in left margin, otherwise in very good condition.