Stanley Joseph Forman (born July 10, 1945) is an American photojournalist, who won the

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two years in a row while working at the '' Boston Herald American''.

Biography

A native of Winthrop, Massachusetts, Forman graduated from Revere High School and studied photography at the

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from 1965 to 1966. After graduating, Forman became a cameraman for political campaigns before joining the '' Boston Herald American'' as a photo lab technician. Forman was later promoted to staff photographer.

Career

By the 1970s Forman became the recipient of citations from the United Press International and the Boston Press Photographers. In 1973 he was chosen as Regional Photographer of the year. In 1975, Forman was awarded the

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for the ''

Fire Escape Collapse ''Fire Escape Collapse'', also known as ''Fire on Marlborough Street'', is a monochrome photograph by Stanley Forman which received the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1976 and the title of World Press Photo of the Year. The photo ...

'', a photograph depicting a young woman, Diana Bryant, and her goddaughter, Tiare Jones, falling from a collapsed fire escape during a fire. As he found out later, the child survived because she was cushioned by the body of her godmother. In 1976 the photo received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. Forman is the first photographer to win the

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 ''The Soiling of Old Glory'' is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken by Stanley Forman during the Boston busing crisis in 1976. It depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, assaulting a black man—lawyer and civil rights activist Ted Landsma ...

'', a photograph depicting a black attorney, Ted Landsmark, being assaulted by a white male teenager, Joseph Rakes, wielding a

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holding the

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as a weapon during the height of the

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. In 1979, Forman's photography staff at the ''Boston Herald American'' won a

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for coverage of the Blizzard of 1978 in

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. However, Forman did not take any photographs that led to the award because he was recovering from an

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injury. The following year, he was named a

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and was honored with the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award from the

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. Forman has worked as a cameraman for Boston's

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since 1983. In 2013 he published a book ‘Before Yellow Tape’.

Honors

*1975 - Winner, Sigma Delta Chi Award *1975 - Winner,

for ''

'' *1976 - Winner,

for ''Fire Escape Collapse'' *1977 - Co-Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for ''

'' *1980 -

*1980 -

Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award *2017 - National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle Award

References

Sources

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External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Forman, Stanley 1945 births Living people People from Winthrop, Massachusetts Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology alumni American photojournalists Nieman Fellows Pulitzer Prize for Photography winners