“Being a woman influenced my ideas about what I wanted to photograph. My interest in women’s issues, in family issues, in social relationships came out of my experience of growing up as a female.” — Abigail HeymanThis photo is probably from the late 1960s and maybe even early 1970s. The Keebler brand name was adopted by United Biscuits in 1966 a few years before the Keebler Elves appeared. Also the photo is from Abigail Heyman’s 1974 book Growing Up Female: A Personal Photo-Journal, and she didn’t start her photography career until around 1967.
(Photo by Abigail Heyman) |
In 1981, Heyman co-founded Archive Pictures Inc., an international documentary photographers' cooperative agency in New York City, along with Mark Godfrey, Charles Harbutt, Joan Liftin, and Mary Ellen Mark.
In the 1990s, Heyman joined the International Center of Photography in Manhattan as director of the documentary and photojournalism department. Though her work is most identified with the feminist movement, as Liftin told the New York Times, “as a feminist, she was not so much about marching. She took pictures that showed what the marching was about.”
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