Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Machado de Assis

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Original – Brazillian author Machado de Assis

Reason: Full disclosure: I'm not sure the skintones are perfect, but that's typical of photographs of the time. In photographs of him in crowds he doesn't appear to be so dark-skinned that I'd consider this entirely misleading, and this article describes him as a "light-skinned mulatto" - I presume that last term is much more acceptable in Brazil. Still, at least to modern eyes, it's probably lightening his skin at least a little bit. They tended to put a lot of light on the faces of dark skinned individuals to try and pull more detail since the film of the time lacked good differentiation of darker colours (and probably for racist reasons as well).

That disclosure and the problems noted therein aside, for the time, this is quite a good photo. I did tweak levels to make it as unmisleading as possible. But I do believe that one should be honest about any flaws in the image when nominating.
Articles in which this image appears: Machado de Assis
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator: Marc Ferrez, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 17:25, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Bammesk (talk) 00:34, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment — I see what I think is macroblocking in the mid-tones of the face. Apart from that I would be inclined to vote support; the other flaws I see are minor and derive from the photo's historical nature. Moonreach (talk) 17:29, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Moonreach: Think I got the worst of it: There was some weird damage - possibly historical retouching. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 07:25, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It does indeed look better. I'll say support. Thanks for doing that. Moonreach (talk) 14:39, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I'm not crazy about the composition, but given that this is an historic photograph, the framing can be excused. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 18:53, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 08:24, 24 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 07:10, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 10:33, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Yann (talk) 14:37, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Machado de Assis by Marc Ferrez.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:09, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]