Werner Forman [SEP] occupation
Werner Forman
Werner Forman (13 January 1921 in Prague – 13 February 2010 in London) was a Czech photographer. In the course of a long career he amassed a visual record of many of the world's ancient civilizations and non-European cultures. Forman initiated almost all of the eighty books which were illustrated solely with his photographs. Devoted to ancient and mainly non-European civilizations, they were published in many languages.
Family.
Born in Prague on 13 January 1921, he committed himself to photography in
a ready market for the Forman books. Another such project was "Egyptian Art" (1962), featuring the renowned collection of Cairo's Egyptian Museum.
After the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 Werner Forman made London his new base and he worked initially for Weidenfeld & Nicolson. From the mid-seventies he edited for Orbis Publishing a new series called "Echoes of the Ancient World". Fifteen volumes in all were published and repeatedly reissued in many languages, on subjects as varied as the Aztecs, T'ang China