# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ricky-powell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:28:03.768Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ricky-powell"
name: "Ricky Powell"
slug: "ricky-powell"
description: "Ricky Powell was an American photographer who documented popular culture including hip hop, punk rock, graffiti, and pop art. His photographs have been featured in The New York Times, the New York Post, the Daily News, The Village Voice, TIME, Newsweek, VIBE, The Source, Rolling Stone, among other publications. His photographs included candid portraits of artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Madonna, in addition to many other popular culture artists and other common people. His photographs were included in the books The Rap Photography of Ricky Powell! (1998), The Rickford Files: Classic New York Photographs (2000), Frozade Moments: Classic Street Photography of Ricky Powell (2004), and Public Access: Ricky Powell Photographs (2005) and were exhibited both domestically and internationally."
tagline: "American photographer (1961-2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Photographer_RICKY_POWELL_in_New_York_photo_by_Ithaka_Darin_Pappas.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1961-11-20"
deathDate: "2021-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.11
  momentum:             2.57378984651712
  historical:           6.63834
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rickypowell.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2254224"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "ريكي باول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "ريكى پول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Powell"
    title: "Ricky Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Powell"
    title: "Ricky Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Powell"
    title: "Ricky Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Powell"
    title: "Ricky Powell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a32bb033-759f-4e7f-be58-1aecc4798d2c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7332161"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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