# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-scherman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:02:21.716Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-scherman"
name: "David Scherman"
slug: "david-scherman"
description: "David E. Scherman was an American photographer, photojournalist, and editor. He is known for his coverage of World War II, being one of the first journalists to discover and photograph the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps and Adolf Hitler's Munich apartment."
tagline: "American photojournalist and editor (1916-1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Uncle_DaveS.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1916"
deathDate: "1997-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.76
  momentum:             0.3680981595092025
  historical:           6.443781333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4"
    title: "Шерман, Дейвид"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ديڤيد ستشيرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Scherman"
    title: "David E. Scherman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Scherman"
    title: "David E. Scherman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Scherman"
    title: "David Scherman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Scherman"
    title: "David E. Scherman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Scherman"
    title: "David E. Scherman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5239528"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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