# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dawoud-bey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:42:49.467Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dawoud-bey"
name: "Dawoud Bey"
slug: "dawoud-bey"
description: "Dawoud Bey is an American photographer, artist and educator known for his large-scale art photography and street photography portraits, including American adolescents in relation to their community, and other often marginalized subjects. In 2017, Bey was named a MacArthur Fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and is regarded as one of the \"most innovative and influential photographers of his generation\"."
tagline: "African American artist (born 1953)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.14
  momentum:             7.263157894736841
  historical:           7.283622666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/dawoudbey"
    handle:    "dawoudbey"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2132795"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "داود بى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawoud_Bey"
    title: "Dawoud Bey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawoud_Bey"
    title: "Dawoud Bey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawoud_Bey"
    title: "Dawoud Bey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawoud_Bey"
    title: "Dawoud Bey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawoud_Bey"
    title: "Dawoud Bey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dawoud_Bey"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4a5ce910-0590-4bdb-b355-a5a25f518cc6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5242608"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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