# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/werner-forman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:26:23.846Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/werner-forman"
name: "Werner Forman"
slug: "werner-forman"
description: "Werner Forman 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."
tagline: "Czech photographer (1921–2010)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1921-01-13"
deathDate: "2010-02-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.59
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.202484
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Forman"
    title: "Werner Forman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B1_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فيرنر فورمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B1_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "فيرنر فورمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Forman"
    title: "Werner Forman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Forman"
    title: "Werner Forman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Forman"
    title: "Werner Forman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Forman"
    title: "Werner Forman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Forman"
    title: "Werner Forman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1308849"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump