Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/La Navarraise

La Navarraise[edit]

Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 4 Jul 2019 at 03:16:00 (UTC)

Reason: A fine image. Does have some of that unrecapturable "new technology is cool" thing - in this case, being able to print photos big, which I believe was very, very new at the time, and hence this probably looked far cooler back then. It's like Fred Ott's Sneeze or how Final Fantasy VII's low-poly 3D character models did not look like total crap at the time. Anyway, this has held up better than a lot of those, and I think Calvé's acting talent is a big reason for it: her pose and expression really sums up her role.
Articles in which this image appears: La Navarraise
FP category for this image: WP:FP/THEATRE
Creator: Reutlinger family; restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.7% of all FPs} 03:16, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geoffroi (talk) 03:54, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Supp --LLcentury (talk) 13:40, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 16:45, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support. As well as the EV for this performance itself, it appears to have historic value as an early large-format photographic poster. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:49, 24 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- @David Eppstein: Honestly, the sources for photography in posters - that are found in a quick Google search - all seem to claim the practice started decades later. E.g. [1] claims it started in the 1920s Soviet Union, and [2] credits them and, I think, the Dadaist school. One suspects such people forgot that theatrical posters existed before film. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 6.7% of all FPs} 02:36, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support.--Vulp here 14:37, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support – DreamSparrow ^Chat 06:10, 29 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Poster for Jules Massenet's La Navarraise with Emma Calvé in the rôle of Anita.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 03:17, 4 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]