Harrison Forman
Harrison Forman | |
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| Born | June 15, 1904 |
| Died | January 31, 1978(aged 73) |
Harrison Forman(1904-1978)[1]was an American photographer and journalist. He wrote forThe New York TimesandNational Geographic.DuringWorld War IIhe reported fromChinaand interviewedMao Zedong.
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree inOriental Philosophy.Forman and his wife Sandra had a son, John, who later changed the spelling of his name to Foreman, and a daughter, Brenda-Lu Forman, who collaborated with her father on one of his books, and also wrote a series of children's books on given names.[2][3]
His collection of diaries and fifty thousand photographs are now at American Geographical Society Library atUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.[4][5][6]
Forman who travelled to theTibetan Plateauin 1932 and filmed thePanchen Lamaat theLabrang Monastery[7]inXiahe,Gansuprovince, served as the Tibetan technical expert on Frank Capra'sLost Horizonfilm of 1937.[8]
Books
[edit]- 1931:Do You Want to Fly?.Shanghai: The Comacrib Press
- 1935:Through Forbidden Tibet.New York: Longmans & Co.; London: Longmans, Green
- 1942:Horizon Hunter: the adventures of a modern Marco Polo.London: Robert Hale
- 1945:Report from Red China.New York: Holt
- 1948:Changing China.New York: Crown Publishers
- 1952:How to make Money with your Camera.New York: McGraw-Hill
- 1964:The Land and People of Nigeria.Philadelphia: Lippincott (with Brenda-Lu Forman)
References
[edit]- ^"Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. NWDA ( 1904 - 1978)".virginia.edu.Archived fromthe originalon 2015-04-09.
- ^Hong Kong (China), Harrison and Sandra Forman's daughter Brenda Lu;University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee digital collections; accessed 2016-09-01
- ^Forman, Brenda-LuIs Your name John?.New York: A. Frommer, 1964
- ^"Travel Diaries and Scrapbooks of Harrison Forman 1932 - 1973".uwm.edu.
- ^"Guide to the Harrison Forman Papers 1931-1974".University of Oregon Special Collections.
- ^Harrison Forman CollectionArchived2015-08-28 at theWayback MachineThe Harrison Forman Photo Collection contains over 3,800 prints and over 300 negatives... sized at 98,000 images
- ^"Through Forbidden Tibet - Narration".collections.lib.uwm.edu.
- ^"Harrison Forman".IMDb.
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