Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/FreudCouch

Freud Couch
This image, featured at the bottom of the Sigmund Freud article and created by Konstantin Binder for the Wikimedia commons is a real gorgeous one which immediately found its way to my desktop background. Konstantin writes about it in his blog (in German!) for those hungry for background info on the image itself. The couch itself is on display at the London Freud Museum.


 * Nominate and support. - Nixdorf 19:01, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - unusual subject so invites you to learn more about it. I like the way the lighting brings the couch forward. The only problem I have with it is that the composition draws my eye into the dark area of the background with all the busts, which are a rather murky area of the picture. Perhaps cropping differently would stop that. --bodnotbod 17:44, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose - I just can't get excited about a picture of a couch. Sorry.--Deglr6328 07:38, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Not a visually stunning image, but the topic is interesting. Thue | talk 10:41, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Interesting (once you know what it is). Enochlau 23:31, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
 * ( − ) Oppose As Deglr6328 --Fir0002 09:39, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Doesn't look like what I would have imagined, so the picture is both educational and attractive.  Jkelly 02:42, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Good quality photograph of historically-significant object. It seems to me that saying it's not interesting because it's a couch is something like saying a picture of the White House will not be interesting because it's a picture of a house. It may indeed literally be that, yes; in both cases, however, notability lies in their historical significance. This couch would not be sitting in a museum if it did not have that significance.— enceph alon  04:29, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Deglr6328 took the words right out of my mouth. --ScottyBoy900Q ∞ 04:04, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Makes me want to read the article less knowing this is waiting for me at the bottom. Just kidding, sorta. -- Lord Vold e  mort  (Dark Mark)  21:26, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The psychiatrist's couch in an archetypal image in our culture today--how fascinating to see the origin of that archetype.  It would be kind of like having a photo of the telescope which Galileo first trained on the heavens (which I have seen pictures of, but was disappointed was not in Wik.)  Okay, now maybe I'm talking myself out of this.  Perhaps it's enough that it's included in the article on Freud.  Unschool 18:27, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * So, is that a support, neutral or oppose vote? We can't count it as it is because I can't figure out your opinion. Raven4x4x 01:05, 2 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Clarification. I have altered my entry.Unschool 08:45, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Cool, thanks. Raven4x4x 09:31, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Raven4x4x 09:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC) 