Stanley Forman
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
three times while working at the Boston Herald American.
Forman studied photography at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
The Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts is one of New England's oldest colleges of engineering and technologies. The college was established with funds bequethed in Benjamin Franklin's will.-History:...
in Boston
Boston
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, 1965-1966. After graduation, he was a cameraman for a political campaign before joining the Boston Herald
Boston Herald
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(which became the Boston Herald American in 1973 and reverted to Boston Herald in 1983) as a photo lab technician. He was later promoted to staff photographer.
Forman won his first two Pulitzer Prizes consecutively, the first photographer to do so. In 1976, he won in the category of "Spot News Photography" for his sequence of photographs showing a young woman and a two-year-old girl falling from a collapsed balcony during a local fire. The next year, he was co-winner in the same category for The Soiling of Old Glory
The Soiling of Old Glory
The Soiling of Old Glory is a Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph taken for the Boston Herald American in 1976 by Stanley Forman.The photograph depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, about to assault black lawyer and civil-rights activist Ted Landsmark with a flagpole bearing the American flag...
, a photograph depicting black lawyer Ted Landsmark
Ted Landsmark
Theodore C. Landsmark is the president of the Boston Architectural College and was previously the Dean of Graduate and Continuing Education at the Massachusetts College of Art...
being assaulted by a man wielding a flagpole as a weapon during the height of anti-busing unrest in Boston. Forman's third Pulitzer Prize came in 1979 when the photography staff of the Boston Herald American won in the "Feature Photography" category for its coverage of the blizzard of 1978, although Forman was laid up with a broken leg during the blizzard, and so did not take any of the photographs which led to the award.
Forman was named a Nieman Fellow in 1980, the same year in which he was awarded the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award by the National Press Photographers Association
National Press Photographers Association
NPPA is the acronym for the National Press Photographers Association, founded in 1947. The organization is based in Durham, North Carolina and its mostly made up of still photographers, television videographers, editors, and students in the journalism field...
. He has worked as a cameraman at Boston station WCVB-TV
WCVB-TV
WCVB-TV, channel 5, is a television station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Hearst Television and affiliated with the ABC Television Network. WCVB-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located in Needham, Massachusetts. WCVB is also one of six Boston television stations seen in Canada by...
since 1983.
Further Reading
- Fischer & Fischer, Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners 1917-2000, K.G. Saur, 2000.