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Ken Heyman: Being Human June 16 through August 26, 2007 CEPA Gallery, Market Arcade Building 617 Main St., Buffalo 716.856.2717 www.cepagallery.org |
Ken Heyman: Pop Portraits June 16 through August 26, 2007 Albright-Knox Art Gallery 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo 716.882.8700 www.albrightknox.org |
CEPA Gallery is proud to be have presented the first major retrospective of Magnum photographer Ken Heyman's important work with a special coordinated exhibit Ken Heyman: Pop Portraits at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Ken Heyman: Being Human is the first comprehensive look at more than 50 years of Heyman's multifaceted career. Ken Heyman: Pop Portraits opened at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery with an artist talk on Friday, June 15, 2007. Mr. Heyman was present at the CEPA opening on Saturday, June 16th and the full project remained on view through Sunday, August 26th.
Ken Heyman is a Magnum Photographer who shot over 150 assignments for Life Magazine, the author of 54 books, and a founding member of the International Center for Photography. He is perhaps best known and most widely regarded for his 20 year collaboration with the distinguished anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead. Heyman and Mead traveled to more than 60 countries and co-authored two acclaimed books, the Pulitzer Prize nominated Family (1965) and World Enough (1976). Heyman's partnership with Mead helped to define visual anthropology and revolutionized public perception of cultural diversity. For over fifty years and in every stage of his career, Ken Heyman has successfully captured human nature and its underlying beauty. His contemporary work includes Hip Shots, a series of images shot literally from-the-hip that reveal people in their most candid, simple, and purest form. His work elicits understanding, tolerance, and compassion and opens viewers' eyes to life in fresh and meaningful ways.
The exhibition at CEPA Gallery celebrates Heyman's vision and serves as his first major retrospective, presenting selections from his early journalistic and anthropological work through his contemporary experimental images. Included are photographs from the renowned series Family as well as Hip Shots and a variety of images created on assignment for Look and Life Magazine. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery partnered with CEPA to present this tremendous body of work and featured Pop Portraits, a series of portraits of such famed artists as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Wesselmann and James Rosenquist. In addition, the Albright-Knox used this opportunity to show artworks by many of the Pop Artists featured in their collection.
