# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jacob-holdt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:38:45.991Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jacob-holdt"
name: "Jacob Holdt"
slug: "jacob-holdt"
description: "Jacob Holdt is a Danish photographer, writer and lecturer. His mammoth work, American Pictures, gained international fame in 1977 for its effective photographic revelations about the hardships of America's lower classes."
tagline: "Danish photographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jacob_Holdt.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1947-04-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.28
  momentum:             16.2202852614897
  historical:           8.158821333333332
  currentAttention:     0.5599999999999999
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0390396/"
    handle:    "nm0390396"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2263040"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%88%D8%A8_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%AA"
    title: "چاكوب هولدت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Holdt"
    title: "Jacob Holdt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Holdt"
    title: "Jacob Holdt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Holdt"
    title: "Jacob Holdt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Holdt"
    title: "Jacob Holdt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Holdt"
    title: "Jacob Holdt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B4%D1%82%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B1"
    title: "Холдт, Якоб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/31a976b7-8719-4972-bee8-7e78bffda7b6"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721352"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4642112"
    title: "Jacob Holdt"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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