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Street Dancer Executing Back Flip, New York
1985 · gelatin silver print
Paper: 27.8 x 35.4 cm (10 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.); Image with black margin: 22.6 x 33.4 cm (8 7/8 x 13 1/8 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Ken Heyman
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6
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24
Works in Collection
44
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The Photographer's Eye
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Edward Steichen Photography Center
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Five Unrelated Photographers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1963
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30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
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Photographs from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
About
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Ken Heyman was an American photographer and filmmaker whose work documented human life across cultures and continents from the 1950s onward. Operating primarily in black and white, he combined anthropological observation with formal compositional rigor, producing extended visual studies of daily labor, ritual, and childhood in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. His photographs appeared in major publications and were exhibited internationally, establishing him as a significant figure in postwar humanist photography.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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