# Werner Forman

Werner Forman (né le 13 janvier 1921 à Prague – mort le 13 février 2010 à Londres) est un photographe tchèque. Il a collaboré à des livres d’art consacrés aux civilisations anciennes et aux cultures non européennes. Installé à Londres en 1968, il a consacré sa vie à voyager dans le monde et les musées.

## Werner Forman Archive

La Werner Forman Archive, dont le siège est à Londres, est une des plus grandes collections de photographies sur l’archéologie, l’art, l’histoire et les paysages des civilisations non européennes.

## Livres illustrés par des photographies de Werner Forman

* A Book of Chinese Art, Lubor Hájek, Spring Books, 1954, 1956, 1958 1966.
* Hokusai – the Man Mad-on-Drawing, Joe Hloucha, Spring Books, 1955, 1956, 1958.
* Prehistoric Art, Josef Poulík, Spring Books, 1956, 1957.
* Exotic Art, Lubor Hájek (ed.), Spring Books, 1956, 1958.
* Art of Far Lands, Lubor Hájek (éd.), Spring Books, 1957.
* Harunobu, Lubor Hájek, Spring Books, 1957.
* Japanese Woodcuts. Early Periods, Lubor Hájek, Spring Books, 1957, 1959.
* Utamaro. Portraits in the Japanese Woodcut, Lubor Hájek, Spring Books, 1958.
* Miniatures from the East, Lubor Hájek, Spring Books, 1960.
* Indian Miniatures of the Moghul School, Lubor Hájek, Spring Books, 1960, 1962.
* A Book of Tapestries, Jarmila Blažkova, Spring Books, 1957.
* Swords and Daggers of Indonesia, Václav Šolc, Spring books, 1958.
* The Parthenon Frieze, D.E.L. Haynes, Spring Books, 1958.
* Afro-Portuguese Ivories, William Fagg, Batchworth Press, 1958.
* Benin Art, Philip Dark, Batchworth Press, 1958, Paul Hamlyn, 1960.
* Cylinder Seals of Western Asia, D. J. Wiseman, Batchworth Press, 1958, Paul Hamlyn, 1960.
* Assyrian Palace Reliefs and their Influence on the Sculptures of Babylonia and Persia, R. D. Barnett, Batchworth Press 1960.
* Persian Fables, Jan Vladislav & Věra Kubíčkova, Spring Books, 1960.
* The Face of Ancient China, Bedřich Forman, Spring Books, 1960.
* Old Venetian Glass, Karel Hetteš, Spring Books, 1960.
* Limoges Enamels, Marie-Madeleine Gauthier & Madeleine Marcheix, Spring Books, 1962.
* Japanese Netsuke, Lída Vilímova, Spring Books, 1960.
* Chinese paper Cut-Outs, Josef Hejzlar, Spring Books, 1960.
* Tapestries from Egypt Woven by the Children of Harrania, Ramses Wissa Wassef, Spring Books, 1960.
* Egyptian Art, Milada Vilímkova, Peter Nevill, 1962.
* The Relics of Ancient China, Zhen Zhen To, Guozi Shudian, 1962.
* The Art of Ancient Korea, Jaroslav Bařinka, Peter Nevill, 1962.
* Indian Sculpture: Masterpieces of Indian, Khmer and Cham Art, Marguerite-Marie Deneck, 1962, 1963, Hamlyn, 1970.
* The Jenghiz Khan Miniatures from the Court of Akbar the Great, Jan Marek & Hana Knížková, Spring Books, 1963.
* Hollar’s Journey on the Rhine, Miloš V. Kratochvíl, Spring Books, 1965.
* The Hermitage, Leningrad: Gothic and Renaissance Tapestries, N. Biryukova, Hamlyn, 1965.
* Africa: History of a Continent, Basil Davidson, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1966.
* Alte Afrikanische Plastik, Burchard Brentjes, Koehler & Amelang, 1966.
* Lamaistische Tanzmasken: Der Erlik-Tsam in der Mongolei, Bjamba Rintschen, Koehler & Amelang, 1966.
* North American Indian Art, Erna Siebert, Paul Hamlyn, 1967.
* Woven by Hand: Egyptian Tapestries, Ramses Wissa Wassef, Paul Hamlyn, 1968.
* The Exotic White Man: an Alien in Asian and African Art, Cottie A. Burland, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968.
* Negro Art from the Institute of Ethnography, Leningrad, Dmitry Olderogge, Paul Hamlyn, 1969.
* Treasures from Scythian Tombs in the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, Mikhail I. Artamov, Thames and Hudson, 1969.
* Roman Forum, Michael Grant, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970.
* Cities of Vesuvius, Michael Grant, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971.
* The Acropolis, R.J. Hopper, Weedenfeld & Nicolson, 1971.
* The Travels of Marco Polo, Cottie A. Burland, Michael Joseph, 1971.
* The Travels of Captain Cook, Ronald Syme, Michael Joseph, 1972.
* The Sounds of Vienna, J. Wechsberg, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972.
* Egyptian Drawings, Hannelore Kischkewitz, Octopus Books, 1972.
* Ancient Musical Instruments, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972.
* Westminster Abbey, John Betjeman, A.L. Rowse, John Pope-Hennessy, Kenneth Clark et al., The Annenberg School Press with Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1972.
* The Art of Vietnam, Josef Hejzlar, Paul Hamlyn, 1973.
* Gods and Demons in Primitive Art, Cottie A. Burland, Paul Hamlyn, 1974.
* The American Indians: their Archaeology and Prehistory, Dean Snow, Thames and Hudson, 1976.
* Echoes of the Ancient World (15 volumes publiés par Orbis Publishing)
* Feathered Serpent and the Smoking Mirror, Cottie A. Burland, 1975, réédité sous le titre de The Aztecs, 1980, 1985.
* Hammer of the North, Magnus Magnusson, 1976, réédité sous le titre de Viking, 1979, 1985.
* The Way of the Samurai, Richard Storry, 1978, 1982, 1985.
* Black Kingdoms, Black Peoples: the West African Heritage, Anthony Atmore & Gillian Stacey, 1979.
* People of the Totem: the Indians of the pacific North-West, Norman Bancroft Hunt, 1979, 1988.
* The Moors: Islam in the West, Michael Brett, 1980, 1984, 1985.
* Indians of the Great Plains, Norman Bancroft Hunt, 1981, 1982, 1985.
* Byzantium: City of Gold, City of Faith, Paul Hetherington, 1983.
* The Maori: Heirs of Tane, David Lewis, 1982, 1985.
* Bali: the Split Gate to Heaven, Rudolf Mrázek & Bedřich Forman, 1983.
* The Romans: their Gods and their Beliefs, Margaret Lyttelton, 1983, 1985.
* The Celts of the West, Venceslas Kruta, 1985.
* In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Egypt during the Old Kingdom, Jaromír Málek, 1986.
* The Eskimos, Ernest S. Burch, Jr, Macdonald Orbis, 1988, 1990.
* Tang China: Vision and Splendour of a Golden Age, Edmund Capon, Macdonald Orbis, 1989.
* Borobudur: the Buddhist Legend in Stone, Bedřich Forman, Octopus, 1980.
* Indonesian Batik & Ikat: Textile art-threads of continuity, Bedřich Forman, Octopus, 1988.
* The Golden Honeycomb. A Sicilian Quest, Vincent Cronin, Harvill, 1992.
* The Life of the Ancient Egyptians, Eugen Strouhal, Cambridge University Press, Oklahoma University Press 1992, American Univ. in Cairo Press, 1994, Liverpool University Press 1996.
* Werner Forman’s New Zealand, C.K. Stead, Harvill, 1994.
* Hieroglyphs and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Stephen Quirke, British Museum Press, 1996.
* Phoenix Rising, Harvill, 1996.