# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-wessel-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:36:45.711Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-wessel-jr"
name: "Henry Wessel, Jr."
slug: "henry-wessel-jr"
description: "Henry Wessel was an American photographer and educator. He made \"obdurately spare and often wry black-and-white pictures of vernacular scenes in the American West\"."
tagline: "American photographer (1942–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wessel_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1942-07-28"
deathDate: "2018-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.475666666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wessel"
    title: "Henry Wessel"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "هنري فيسل جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "هنرى فيسل جونيور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wessel_Jr."
    title: "Henry Wessel Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wessel_Jr."
    title: "Henry Wessel Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wessel_Jr."
    title: "Henry Wessel Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q373689"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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