Harrison Forman
Harrison Forman | |
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| Born | June 15, 1904 |
| Died | January 31, 1978 (aged 73) New York City, New York, US |
Harrison Forman (June 15, 1904 – January 31, 1978)[1] was an American photographer and journalist. He wrote for The New York Times and National Geographic.[2]: 68 During World War II he reported from China and interviewed Mao Zedong.
Biography
[edit | edit source]He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in Oriental 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.[3][4]
His collection of diaries and fifty thousand photographs are now at American Geographical Society Library at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.[5][6][7]
Forman who travelled to the Tibetan Plateau in 1932 and filmed the Panchen Lama at the Labrang Monastery[8] in Xiahe, Gansu province.
Forman wrote the 1936 book, Through Forbidden Tibet: An Adventure into the Unknown.[2]: 68
He served as the Tibetan technical expert on Frank Capra's Lost Horizon film of 1937.[9]
In 1943, Forman was among the foreign journalists who established the Foreign Correspondents' Association in China.[2]: 68–69
In 1944, he visited Yan'an and interviewed Chinese Communist Party leaders including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De.[2]: 69
Books
[edit | edit source]- 1931: Do You Want to Fly?. Shanghai: The Comacrib Press
- 1936: 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
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- ^ Hong Kong (China), Harrison and Sandra Forman's daughter Brenda Lu; University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee digital collections; accessed 2016-09-01
- ^ Forman, Brenda-Lu Is Your name John?. New York: A. Frommer, 1964
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External links
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- 1978 deaths
- 1904 births
- American photojournalists
- National Geographic Society
- The New York Times visual journalists
- Journalists from Wisconsin
- Artists from Milwaukee
- University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
- 20th-century American journalists
- American expatriates in China
- 20th-century American male journalists
- American journalist, 1900s birth stubs