Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Billy Strayhorn

Billy Strayhorn

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Original – Billy Strayhorn, jazz legend who composed many of the iconic works in the genre, partially in collaboration with Duke Ellington.

Reason: You know, I do~~n't~~ want to brag, but: here's a commercially available restoration of this image. I think I did a better job, and I'm not charging for use. (And if you want to over-boost contrast until half the details behind Strayhorn fade into dark... I'm sure you can still do that.)
Articles in which this image appears: Billy Strayhorn + I just scattered it over a few song articles that lacked images.
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator: William P. Gottlieb, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:26, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Jobas (talk) 22:38, 28 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - A perfect example of what Strayhorn can do. Ikhtiar H (talk) 04:14, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

• One has to go to full res to clearly see that that's a cigarette in his mouth. Sca (talk) 15:07, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Aye, but it's a minor issue at thumbnail that adds to the image at full, and this is easily the best image I can find for him. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 02:21, 30 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support – Yann (talk) 15:25, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Wolftick (talk) 00:37, 31 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Support – "And there I'll be while I rot with the rest/ Of those whose lives are lonely, too." – Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 10:01, 3 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Billy Strayhorn, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948 (William P. Gottlieb 08211).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:33, 7 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]