Harrison Forman
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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]Template:Rp During World War II he reported from China and interviewed Mao Zedong.
Biography
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]Template:Rp
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]Template:Rp
In 1944, he visited Yan'an and interviewed Chinese Communist Party leaders including Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De.[2]Template:Rp
Books
- 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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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. NWDA ( 1904 - 1978)". virginia.edu.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Li, Ying (2024). Red Ink: A History of Printing and Politics in China. Royal Collins Press. ISBN 9781487812737.
- ^ 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
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Travel Diaries and Scrapbooks of Harrison Forman 1932 - 1973". uwm.edu.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Guide to the Harrison Forman Papers 1931-1974". University of Oregon Special Collections.
- ^ Harrison Forman Collection Script error: No such module "webarchive". The Harrison Forman Photo Collection contains over 3,800 prints and over 300 negatives... sized at 98,000 images
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Through Forbidden Tibet - Narration". collections.lib.uwm.edu.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Harrison Forman". IMDb.
External links
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