# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/virginia-schau
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:41:42.290Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/virginia-schau"
name: "Virginia Schau"
slug: "virginia-schau"
description: "Virginia Margaret (Brown) Schau was an American who was the first woman and second amateur to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which she was awarded in 1954. The award-winning photograph was taken in Redding, California, at the Pit River Bridge and was titled \"Rescue on Pit River Bridge\". The photograph was taken with a Kodak Brownie camera."
tagline: "American photographer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Rescue_on_Pit_River_Bridge_%28sharpened%29.jpg/330px-Rescue_on_Pit_River_Bridge_%28sharpened%29.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1915-02-23"
deathDate: "1989-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.34
  momentum:             7.118644067796609
  historical:           4.611844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Schau"
    title: "Virginia Schau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Schau"
    title: "Virginia Schau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Schau"
    title: "Virginia Schau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Schau"
    title: "Virginia Schau"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BE%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9C."
    title: "Шо, Вирджиния М."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7934489"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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