Edition 2019

Abigail Heyman

Born 1942, Danburry, United States.
Died 2013, New York, United States.

Abigail Heyman had been a freelance photographer before she joined Magnum Photos from 1974 to 1981. She then took part in the creation of the Archive Pictures agency. She became a teacher at the International Center of Photography in New York. She is the author of Dreams and Schemes: Love and Marriage in Modern Times (1987), a book gathering her wedding photographs, offering an acute and playful analysis of rituals attached to this ceremony.