Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Jane Russell in The Outlaw

Jane Russell in The Outlaw[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Sep 2015 at 15:56:58 (UTC)

Reason: Iconic publicity shot that launched a thousand ships (maybe that was Helen of Troy) and some bra-related rumours (not Helen of Troy). The image of Jane Russell. Imagine somebody trying to take a shot like this of an actress today; we've really moved on. Apparently copyright has not been renewed.
Articles in which this image appears: Jane Russell, The Outlaw
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Entertainment
Creator: George Hurrell

Support as nominator – Belle (talk) 15:56, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Iconic. Note how pistol is positioned to align with the line of her leg. Artsy. Sca (talk) 16:35, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - High quality, very clean image. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:11, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Probably shot on 120 film with a TLR, I would guess. Sca (talk) 17:34, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

~~Oppose~~ for now. Author field needs to be filled, and there needs to be something to show why exactly this was PD. What steps were taken to see whether or not there was a renewal made? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:18, 14 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Chris, hopefully that's done now; what a way to spend an hour! I suppose I did find the photographer details, so it wasn't a complete washout; though if you tell me I've done it wrong I will punch you with my very very very long internet arm. Belle (talk) 10:57, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
(Avoids punch) Looks very good. But if this picture is on LoC, that scan may be of higher quality. Can you check, Adam? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:00, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
The LOC states its copy is signed in pen, that's why I didn't bother investigating that version any further. Belle (talk) 13:26, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@Crisco 1492 and Belle: It's signed off the image itself. See for yourself: File:Jane_Russell_in_The_Outlaw_(Library_of_Commons_version).tif Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:11, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
That image is bigger and Jane gains about half a foot (the right one) but it isn't as sharp. What do we think? I prefer the original; though the cropped foot bothers me, there's nothing to say that it wasn't cropped like that for the shot issued for publicity. Belle (talk) 16:29, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Inclined to agree. The hay behind her also looks a lot better in the original; suspect there's some secondary editing. Plus, a lot of the bottom's cropped in the LoC version, which damages composition. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 17:25, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Me too. There's a bit of a gradient that doesn't look very good, too. Support — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:12, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Tremonist (talk) 12:42, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support, assuming the copyright discussion above is satisfactorily resolved. I've added the image to the photographer's page; given that it is the sole example shown and that he "was a photographer who made a significant contribution to the image of glamour presented by Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s", I'd say that this had incredibly high EV for that article- perhaps more so than any other. Josh Milburn (talk) 16:41, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Having uploaded this, I hesitated to nominate due to possible compression as 745 KB looked suspicious to me. But since green light was given above, looks like it's ok. Brandmeister^talk 20:53, 15 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Iconic image of Russell.--Godot13 (talk) 07:06, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Iconic. — Yann (talk) 08:45, 17 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Or should we say ironic? Sca (talk) 16:14, 20 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Support -–Jobas (talk) 15:18, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Jane Russell in The Outlaw.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:00, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]