Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Build For Your Navy

Build For Your Navy[edit]

The Library of Congress has quite a few digitized WPA posters. I thought this one was particularly strong, and have added it to the Seabees article. It could go in the Federal Art Project article as well, though that article seems a bit short for multiple images.

Feature worthy?

Nominate and support. - Davepape 16:22, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

I'm really not sure. It seems a touch blurry, and I'm not sure about its significance in an encyclopedia, compared to other propaganda posters. It is interesting though, so it gets points for being visually interesting. But again, the biggest problem is "what sets this apart from all the other similar posters?" There could be a better poster out there. --Tewy 20:21, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- I agree about the resolution/blurriness not being great; particularly the fact that the Seabees logo is illegible; I've added a sharpened version, of course that enhances the noise too. As for encyclopedicity, it ties in well with two non-trivial topics - the Seabees & the WPA art program (though Wikipedia's article on the FAP needs a lot more work). I just came across this article [1] detailing the significance of the poster program. Most of the WPA posters I've looked at are interesting but kind of bland; this struck me as being in the small group of good ones. There are some with stronger Art Deco-ness that might be better FPCs, though I liked that this one fit in a non-stub article. Davepape 03:28, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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