# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sheldon-dick
# Generated: 2026-09-02T08:12:31.181Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sheldon-dick"
name: "Sheldon Dick"
slug: "sheldon-dick"
description: "Sheldon Dick (1906–1950) was an American publisher, literary agent, photographer, and filmmaker. He was a member of a wealthy and well-connected industrialist family, and was able to support himself while funding a series of literary and artistic endeavors. He published a book by poet Edgar Lee Masters, and made a documentary about mining that has been of interest to scholars. Dick is best known for the photographs he took on behalf of the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, and for the violent circumstances of his death."
tagline: "American photographer (1906–1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Sheldon_Dick_by_Janina_Lester.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1906"
deathDate: "1950-05-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.73
  momentum:             0.5970149253731343
  historical:           5.271778666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6166629/"
    handle:    "nm6166629"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Dick"
    title: "Sheldon Dick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "شيلدون ديك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Dick"
    title: "Sheldon Dick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Dick"
    title: "Sheldon Dick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%DB%8C%D9%84%DA%88%D9%86_%DA%88%DA%A9"
    title: "شیلڈن ڈک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7493479"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1282266"
    title: "Sheldon Dick"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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