Background
Robert Dorman was born in 1885 in Rutherford, New Jersey, United States.
Robert Dorman was born in 1885 in Rutherford, New Jersey, United States.
As a young man, Robert Dorman was a soldier of fortune, fighting in several Latin-American revolutions and riding with Pancho Villa and his Mexican revolutionaries as a photo-correspondent. He served for many years (until his 1951 retirement) as manager of Acme Newspictures, at that time an affiliate of NEA Service (now of United Press Newspictures).
A photojoumalist whose heyday was in the twenties, Robert Dorman notably covered such events as the Dempsey-Gibbons prizefight in 1923 at Shelby, Montana; the Labrador landing of the U.S. round-the-world flyers in 1924; the flight of the German dirigible ZR-3 to the U.S.; and aerial shots over the Lake Denmark, New Jersey, arsenal in 1926 while ammunition sheds and shells were exploding into the sky.