Greg Heisler

Gregory Heisler is a professional photographer known for his evocative portrait work often found on the cover of magazines, such as "Time", for which he has produced a number of Man, Person, and People of the Year covers.

Heisler once had his White House photographer privileges revoked after taking a photograph of President George H.W. Bush for Time Magazine in which Heisler used "in camera" techniques of double exposure to show what the cover labeled the two faces of Bush. The president was unaware of this photographic technique being used at the time of the shot. His press secretary Marlin Fitzwater later wrote about his own anger in "Call the Briefing!" (He discussed how upset he was in an interview in 1995 with [http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1276 Brian Lamb on C-SPAN's Booknotes] .) Heisler's trade group protested the ban because it was based on an editorial opinion that was expressed. Heisler has since taken photographs of President George W. Bush.

Many of Heisler's images can be seen [http://www.gregoryheisler.com here] on his website.

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