Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Meditation by Lang Jingshan

Meditation by Lang Jingshan
Voting period ends on 22 Jun 2014  at 03:38:15 (UTC)
 * Reason:It's a beautiful and historically significant picture that illustrates its article in a way no other image could, clearly and beautifully showcasing the works of the photographer that the article is about. It's also significant as it showcases early chinese photography, which is an under-appreciated and/or unknown subject to western audiences. While the image resolution might not be great, for being what it is (chinese historical photograph), it's not bad. The technical standard is very high, it's in the public domain, adds significant encyclopedic value to its article, and is likely among the best examples of early chinese photography that wikipedia has to offer. It appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 11 June 2014. The text of the entry was as follows: "Did you know... that Lang Jingshan was the first Chinese art photographer to use nude models (earliest photo pictured)?"
 * Articles in which this image appears:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Jingshan
 * FP category for this image: Featured pictures/Artwork/East Asian art


 * Support as nominator – Natsymir 03:38, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I agree that this has a sort of ethereal beauty, but it is fairly short on resolution. I'm tempted to overlook that, but I'd like to see what others think. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 07:50, 12 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Reluctant oppose I think, given the notability of the photographer, we can expect a bit more. I don't think the case has quite been made for why we couldn't reasonably expect higher resolution, given this is presumably exhibited or reprinted somewhere? I'm open to changing my mind, though. Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:31, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - The photo IS beautifull, but 1,024 × 660 pixels is too little, if you read the Featured picture criteria. Hafspajen (talk) 21:48, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 04:56, 22 June 2014 (UTC)