Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Guide at Little Norway, Wisconsin

Guide at Little Norway, Wisconsin

Original - Early color photograph of a guide at Little Norway, Wisconsin. Taken by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration, 1943. Digitally restored.

Reason: An amazing portrait by any standard, but especially for 1943. The subject is a guide to a Norwegian heritage site in Wisconsin which has since been named to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Encyclopedic for the history section of the article about the site and for the photographer's biography. Restored version of File:Little Norway Guide.jpg.
Articles this image appears in: Arthur Rothstein, Little Norway, Wisconsin
Creator: Arthur Rothstein

Support as nominator --Durova³³¹ 01:13, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support It's very good, but the suspender on the right is blurry. Now its a damn old photo, so I support it, but if someone could figure out a way to sharpen that suspender I'd be much happier. Nezzadar ☎ 01:24, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- The depth of field concentrates sharpest focus on his eyes. Also bear in mind this scan is 70MB in uncompressed format--which is about an order of magnitude greater resolution than most color photography today. Durova³³¹
  - I see. Them eyes are creepy. It's like I can see into his soul, and there is darkness within. Nezzadar ☎ 04:21, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support for the dark-souled elf! Xavexgoem (talk) 21:06, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Good EV, interesting subject, very high technical quality. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 07:54, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support as an example of the artist's work (not convinced about the other use, in terms of EV). However, I'd say the real value of this image would be in showing such high quality photography from such a long time ago- would it not fit somewhere like colour photography or a specific article about whatever photographic method this is? I think I'd be willing to give a full support if the image was used in that sort of context usefully. J Milburn (talk) 18:45, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose Color photography wasn't that new in 1943. The photograph is nice in and of itself, but its encyclopedic value in the articles is marginal at best. Thegreenj 21:49, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support High EV. Color photography was in fact very new. — Jake Wartenberg 03:25, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support per NotFromUtrecht. Also, according to Color_photography#History, there was a great deal of expansion in the field of photography at this time, so it is safe to say that this is one of the first high quality color photographs. In any case though, good EV all around. NW (Talk) 03:28, 24 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Little Norway Guide2.jpg --jjron (talk) 12:46, 27 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]