Figure 1.-- Here is one of Harry Lachman's photigraphs of the beautiful French refugee children. This unidentified boy is wearing a classic school smock. Lachman's pgotographs played a key role in Morgan's fund raising efforts. |
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Harry Lachman is not best known as a photographer, but we think that this was his best work in both still photogrsphy and film and it was done in France, not America. Harry was born in La Salle, Illinois (1886). He was educated at the University of Michigan. His first artistic effort was as magazine and book illustrator. Great strides had beenmade in lithograhy. He produced four beautiful color illustrations fot a book written Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay, John Smith, Gentleman Adventurer (1907). Lachman's heart was in art. And like many young Americans of like mind, he headed off to Paris to develop his art (1911). He began working in the post-impressionist style and was beginning to make a reputation. He was a fledgling artist and had to support himdelf. He got a job designing movie sets which launch a long association with movies. Then the Germans declared war and launched an invasioin through Belgium toward Paris (1914). It was at this time that he came in contact with Anne Morgan and her interest in helping wounded soldiers and refugees. Morgan had him take photographs and create films about the regugees returnhg to Piicardy (1917). The result was photograohic masterworks. Morgan relied geavily on them for her efforts =to raiuse funds for her Comité Américain pour les Régions Dévastées de France. The French Government awarded him the Légion d'Honneur (1922). We are not sure to what extent it was for art or his work with Morgan and the refugees, probably both. He worked in French films after the War, but then moved Hollywood (1933). He was involved in large numbers of Hollywood movies. He began to focus on painting again (1940).
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