Harrison Forman

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Harrison Forman
BornJune 15, 1904
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
DiedJanuary 31, 1978(1978-01-31) (aged 73)

Harrison Forman (1904-1978) [1] was an American photographer and journalist. He wrote for The New York Times and National Geographic . During World War II he reported from China and interviewed Mao Zedong.

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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. [2] [3]

His collection of diaries and fifty thousand photographs are now at American Geographical Society Library at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. [4] [5] [6]

Forman who travelled to the Tibetan Plateau in 1932 and filmed the Panchen Lama at the Labrang Monastery [7] in Xiahe, Gansu province, served as the Tibetan technical expert on Frank Capra's Lost Horizon film of 1937. [8]

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References

  1. "Forman, Harrison, 1904-1978. NWDA ( 1904 - 1978)". virginia.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-04-09.
  2. Hong Kong (China), Harrison and Sandra Forman's daughter Brenda Lu; University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee digital collections; accessed 2016-09-01
  3. Forman, Brenda-Lu Is Your name John?. New York: A. Frommer, 1964
  4. "Travel Diaries and Scrapbooks of Harrison Forman 1932 - 1973". uwm.edu.
  5. "Guide to the Harrison Forman Papers 1931-1974". orbiscascade.org.
  6. Harrison Forman Collection Archived 2015-08-28 at the Wayback Machine The Harrison Forman Photo Collection contains over 3,800 prints and over 300 negatives... sized at 98,000 images
  7. "Through Forbidden Tibet - Narration". collections.lib.uwm.edu.
  8. "Harrison Forman". IMDb.

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