Stanley Forman

Stanley Forman
Stanley Forman
	Forman in 1976.
Born	Stanley Joseph Forman; July 10, 1945; Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
Notable work	Fire Escape Collapse; The Soiling of Old Glory
Awards	Sigma Delta Chi Award ; 1975 ; ; World Press Photo of the Year ; 1975 ; ; Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography ; 1976 and 1977 ;
Website	stanleyformanphotos.com

Stanley Joseph Forman (born July 10, 1945 in Winthrop) is an American photojournalist, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography two years in a row while working at the Boston Herald American.

Career

A native of Winthrop, Massachusetts, Forman studied photography at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology from 1965 to 1966. After graduating, he became a cameraman for political campaigns before joining the Boston Herald American as a photo lab technician. Forman was later promoted to staff photographer.[1]

In 1975, Forman was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year by World Press Photo for the Fire Escape Collapse, a photograph depicting a young woman, Diana Bryant, and her goddaughter, Tiare Jones, falling from a collapsed fire escape during a fire. He is the first photographer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography two years in a row (1976 and 1977). In 1976, he won for the Fire Escape Collapse, and the next year, he became co-winner for the same award for The Soiling of Old Glory, a photograph depicting a black attorney, Ted Landsmark, being assaulted by a white male teenager, Joseph Rakes, wielding a flagpole holding the American flag as a weapon during the height of the Boston Desegregation Busing Crisis.[2]

In 1979, Forman's photography staff at the Boston Herald American won a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for coverage of the Blizzard of 1978 in Boston. However, Forman did not take any photographs that led to the award because he was recovering from an Achilles tendon injury. The following year, he was named a Nieman Fellow and was honored with the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award from the National Press Photographers Association.[3]

Forman has worked as a cameraman for Boston's WCVB-TV since 1983.[4]

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