# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/martin-elkort
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:38:14.828Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/martin-elkort"
name: "Martin Elkort"
slug: "martin-elkort"
description: "Martin Edward Elkort was an American photographer, illustrator and writer known primarily for his street photography. Prints of his work are held and displayed by several prominent art museums in the United States. His photographs have regularly appeared in galleries and major publications. Early black and white photographs by Elkort feature the fabled Lower East Side in Manhattan, New York City, showing its ethnic diversity, myriad streets and cluttered alleys. The Coney Island amusement park in Brooklyn was another favorite site during that period. His later work depicts street scenes from downtown Los Angeles and Tijuana, Mexico. Throughout Martin Elkort's long career as a photographer, he always showed the positive, joyful side of life in his candid images."
tagline: "American photographer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Martin_Elkort_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-04-18"
deathDate: "2016-11-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           31.8
  momentum:             0.6451612903225806
  historical:           4.401188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://martinelkort.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA"
    title: "مارتين الكورت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Elkort"
    title: "Martin Elkort"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Elkort"
    title: "Martin Elkort"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA"
    title: "مارتین الکورت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Elkort"
    title: "Martin Elkort"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15982375"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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