Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sandow returns

Sandow returns! edit

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 12 Mar 2015 at 17:55:26 (UTC)

Original – Eugen Sandow advertised in an 1894 poster for a production of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.

Reason: I was looking over the rearranged article after the Eugen Sandow photograph passed, and saw this. Colours looked slightly off, so I jumped through and had a look. It turned out to be small and made from an early Library of Congress scan, and those could have poor colour fidelity, so I was willing to leave it be...

...Except that it also turned out that the LoC had since made a good version available, and it wasn't too big of a task to fix it. Useful to have an advertising poster. Adds some information to the article - he toured, he was popular, he did the act advertised, he was promoted by Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. - in a simple, attractive way.

Articles in which this image appears: Eugen Sandow, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. (the latter just now, replacing a deleted image)
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Culture,_entertainment,_and_lifestyle/Entertainment
Creator: Strobridge Lithographic Co.; restoration by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:55, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Sandow's club. Hafspajen (talk) 15:25, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jobas (talk) 01:06, 5 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Excellent work on the restoration; good EV. SagaciousPhil - Chat 20:03, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose. No doubt a good restoration, but I don't find the image itself to be special enough to be featured. The resolution is okay, but sharpness is fairly poor. We have much better posters. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 21:35, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- @Diliff: That's more a critique of the original lithograph, done on the cheap, though: A lot of these ephemeral posters look about like this, but I don't think there's a better one for the Ziegfeld promotion of the Trocadero club, or for this phase of Sandow's career. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 21:56, 6 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Oh, what the heck. I saw the same problems Diliff pointed out (hence my late !vote), but what can I say... I've got a soft spot for corniness. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:09, 7 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

^{'Corniness meaning: Trite, dated, melodramatic, or mawkishly sentimental ?Hafspajen (talk) 11:24, 7 March 2015 (UTC)}[reply]

^{Cf hokey, cheesy. Sca (talk) 15:50, 7 March 2015 (UTC)}[reply]

^{^{phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality}}Hafspajen (talk) 13:07, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:The Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles, Sandow lifting the human dumbell, 1894.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 18:08, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]