Heyman, Ken, photos. The Private World of Leonard Bernstein by John Gruen, photographs by Ken Heyman.

Viking, 1968.  A Ridge Press Book.  Hardcover, illustrated boards with clear acetate dust jacket with white printing.  Book is very good with bump on bottom front edge affecting first few pages.  Dust jacket is good with tears near spine tips. 191 pages, profusely illustrated with photos excellently reproduced, with printing by Mondadori, Verona, Italy. An intimate look at the life of the maestro, his work, wife, children, and friends.  Bernstein is portrayed as having a close knit, loving family and this book not surprisingly doesn't mention his secret life later discussed by Philip Gefter in What Becomes A Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon and covered in the movie, Maestro.  Nevertheless, this book provides fascinating insights into the busy and complex life of one of America's greatest musicians.

Ken Heyman (1929–2019) was a celebrated American photojournalist and author recognized for his compassionate, global documentation of human culture, family life, and social development. Raised in New York City, Heyman pursued photography while studying at Columbia University, where a pivotal encounter with renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead led to a fruitful decade-long collaboration, accompanying her on field research across Bali, Mexico, and Japan to visually record cross-cultural human behavior. Joining the prestigious Magnum Photos agency in 1956, Heyman completed assignments in over sixty countries for major publications like Life, Look, and Time, establishing a reputation for empathetic, candid 35mm portraiture that highlighted shared human experiences across disparate societies. His collaborative photobooks with Mead, including Family (1965) and World Enough (1976), as well as his landmark pop-art project Pop Art (1965, with John Rublowsky) and intimate study Willie (1967), earned widespread acclaim for blending social science with fine-art documentary photojournalism. Heyman’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography, cementing his legacy as a master visual anthropologist of the 20th century.