Ken Heyman, 89, Dies; Collaborative Photographer With a Singular Eye

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Ken Heyman, 89, Dies; Collaborative Photographer With a Singular Eye He traveled with the anthropologist Margaret Mead, teamed up with President Lyndon Johnson and shot for Life and Look, creating revelatory pictures.Ken Heyman, a leading photographer who worked with Margaret Mead, shot scores of assignments for Life magazine, collaborated with President Lyndon B. Johnson and endlessly sought new, revelatory ways of seeing the world, died on Dec. 10 at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.His daughter Jennifer McCarthy confirmed his death.Mr. Heyman first accompanied Mead, the noted cultural anthropologist, on a trip to Bali in 1957, and he took the photographs for "Family," an acclaimed 1965 collaboration in which the two examined families around the world in images and text."The combination," Jacob Deschin wrote in a review in The New York Times, "more integrated than is usual in word and picture associations, should make anthropology palatable for many who might never be inclined to pick up a book on the subject."The next year he collaborated with President Johnson on "This America: A Portrait of a Nation," a book intended to illustrate Johnson's "Great Society" initiatives. Johnson wrote the text.Those two books were among more than 40 that Mr. Heyman published, either on his own or in collaboration with writers. Some were whimsical, like a series of children's books with Ann Morris that took a global look at particular subjects ("Bread, Bread, Bread," "Hats, Hats, Hats"). Others documented the grown-up world, like "Pop Art" (1965) and "The Private World of Leonard Bernstein" (1968, with John Gruen)."Ken Heyman seems to use his skill and the photographic process to allow other people, his subjects, to make their own pitch about themselves," an essay about him in the boo

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