Photojournalist Abigail Heyman, 1942-2013

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/06/08/arts/20130608Heyman-obit.html?ref=design

 

“I have been a girl child and, in my expectations, a mother . . . I have tried to be prettier than I am. I have been treated as a sex object, and at times I have encouraged that. I have been married and have seen my husband’s work as more important than my own.”

Her work as a photographer, she said, reflected “the conflicts inherent in growing up female” and “the conflicts inherent in trying to change.”