# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/viggo-rivad
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:09:02.551Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/viggo-rivad"
name: "Viggo Rivad"
slug: "viggo-rivad"
description: "Viggo Reinholdt Rivad was a Danish photographer who started as an autodidact in 1946, and went on to win numerous competitions in the 1950s and 1960s. Around 1960, he adopted his so-called \"essay approach\", resulting in a series of related photographs, such as Et farvel (1962) and Laurits (1971). Rivad, who also earned a living as a taxi driver, was a quiet, dedicated photographer, concentrating on disadvantaged areas and people on the fringes of society. His humanitarian messages were a result of his indignation, and his concern for society's outcasts."
tagline: "Danish photographer (1922–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Viggo-Rivad.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1922-07-03"
deathDate: "2016-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.37
  momentum:             3
  historical:           4.868034666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viggo_Rivad"
    title: "Viggo Rivad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%88_%D8%B1%D9%8A%DA%A4%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "ڤيجو ريڤاد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viggo_Rivad"
    title: "Viggo Rivad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/4160400"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viggo_Rivad"
    title: "Viggo Rivad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viggo_Rivad"
    title: "Viggo Rivad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7928889"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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