# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karl-larka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:03:09.259Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karl-larka"
name: "Karl Lärka"
slug: "karl-larka"
description: "Karl Lärka was one of the more important 20th-century documentary photographers in Sweden. Lärka's prime concern was to document the peasant culture that he understood was beginning to disappear, and especially the culture of the lands around lake Siljan in Dalarna; one with agriculture, forestry and many people with stories about older times. Most of his photography was done from 1916 to 1934, and he combined it with lecture tours about the countryside of Siljan. He also documented many of the stories elderly people in the villages told him and was very active in the Swedish local heritage movement that started in the 1920s. More than 4,200 of his photographic plates are today in the municipal archive of Mora."
tagline: "Swedish photographer (1892-1981)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karl-larka-selfportrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Sweden"
  isoCode: "SE"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1892-07-24"
deathDate: "1981-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.16
  momentum:             16.54761904761905
  historical:           6.136825333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Karl Lärka"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A7"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_L%C3%A4rka"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_L%C3%A4rka"
    title: "Karl Lärka"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_L%C3%A4rka"
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  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_L%C3%A4rka"
    title: "Karl Lärka"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_L%C3%A4rka"
    title: "Karl Lärka"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1797192"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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