Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:JapaneseAmericansChildrenPledgingAllegiance1942.jpg

Japanese Americans Pledging Allegiance to the American Flag (by Dorothea Lange)

 * Reason:High quality historic image by famed photographer Dorothea Lange. Has good EV on the articles it is in.
 * Articles this image appears in:Dorothea Lange, Japanese American internment, Pledge of Allegiance
 * Creator:Dorothea Lange


 * Support as nominator -- Nezzadar   [SPEAK]  04:48, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Support. Great image by a great photographer. No doubts. I feel it would add value to the Pledge of Allegiance article as well. Elekhh (talk) 06:45, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment. Dorothea Lange article already has 2 FPs, one purportedly as an illustration of her work. Is this really such an excellent example of her work? Also caption here seems highly dubious compared to source notes on image page and caption in article; original info gives it questionable EV in the other article. --jjron (talk) 06:47, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Japanese American internment and Pledge of Allegiance have no FP. Elekhh (talk) 06:57, 29 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Oppose on further consideration. Poor image/scan quality, poor framing, dubious EV per above. Sorry. --jjron (talk) 12:25, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * as per my comments above I added the image to the Pledge of Allegiance article, Criticism section. Please consider EV in this context. Also note that Lange did document the Pledge of Allegiance by childern on multiple occasions, . Elekhh (talk) 23:21, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Compositionally I'd say one of the weaker images in the pledge article - and the caption is incorrect. FWIW that first 'alt' you link to is a far better photo if it was available (shame about the clipped flag, but in general...). --jjron (talk) 11:55, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I changed the caption to be more accurate. I agree that the image is not creating a visually balanced composition, however I think we are dealing here exactly with one of those exceptional cases where aesthetics was deliberately set aside. Lange is certainly not concerned of composition here. The picture provides a deeply humane insight into the mid-20th century society, and questions one of its key doctrines. The author doesn't try to aesthetize the captured moment. The value of the image lies in the tension between the facial expresion of the children, and the topic of the image. No other image in the article provides such an insight. Elekhh (talk) 13:18, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Methinks you are seeing a bit too much. :-) --jjron (talk) 12:37, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Haha funny... I wouldn't disagree that my perception is a post-infant one :-) Elekhh (talk) 21:57, 31 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Weak support Not Lange's best, and not the best scan of a Lange, but even a so-so Lange is pretty good. And ev at Japanese American Internment...poignant.  Durova  348 20:02, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose. I agree with Durova's criticisms, but the ev at the internment article is actually doubtful since (according to the caption) this photo was taken before the interment started.  Spikebrennan (talk) 19:23, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak oppose for now. Too much obvious, easily fixable dust to raise to FP status. Staxringold talkcontribs 20:09, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Can someone fix the easily fixable dust then, I can't. Nezzadar   [SPEAK]  02:17, 30 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Upload over the original?  Zoo Fari Boo! 00:52, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Whatever works for you. Nezzadar   [SPEAK]  01:33, 31 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Weak support-- Silversmith Hewwo 08:22, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Edit posted. Please see the portion above the girl on the left. I didn't do a very good job with a small portion of the smudge correction, maybe someone could fix it.  Zoo Fari  19:50, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

--Makeemlighter (talk) 22:34, 9 November 2009 (UTC)