Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Manzanar calisthenics 0016u.jpg

Ansel Adams — Calesthenics [sic] (1943)[edit]

Reason: Another political image of sorts. In 1943, Adams visited the Japanese-American internment camp at Manzanar and took a series of photographs, many of which are considered among his best portraits. He has been criticized for putting a positive spin on the subject, but when he gifted the set to the Library of Congress, he defended his decision:; The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment. — Ansel Adams, 1965; I believe this picture perfectly encapsulates this intent.
Articles this image appears in: Manzanar, Calisthenics, Born Free and Equal
Creator: Ansel Adams
Nominator: trialsanderrors

Support — trialsanderrors 07:58, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Both quality and background, great! --antilived^{T | C | G} 08:05, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tomer T 13:02, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support 'WiiWillieWiki→^(Talk) 14:35, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support I looked through this database on several occasions for images to nominate. Good choice! — BRIAN0918 • 2007-03-12 16:23Z
Support. This is an issue that resonates highly with me. My wife's family was interned during the war and I've visited Manzanar several times myself. howcheng {chat} 17:50, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
~~Oppose~~, until the image page has a good extended caption.--ragesoss 19:45, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Female internees practicing calisthenics at Manzanar War Relocation Center, Owens Valley, California. In 1943, Ansel Adams followed an invitation by newly appointed camp director Ralph Merritt to photograph the everyday life of the Japanese American internees in the camp. Unlike his colleague Dorothea Lange, whose pictures for the War Relocation Authority focused on the hardship and humiliation of the deportation and internment, Adams's intent was to "show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, (…) had overcome the sense of defeat and despair by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment." (Ansel Adams, 1965)
- I think we should make this mandatory for all nominations. PS I also started an entry on the book: Born Free and Equal. ~ trialsanderrors 20:13, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  - Support. Very good caption. I agree about making extended captions mandatory. Even for photos of mundane things, information about location, provenance of the subject, etc., and a basic description is helpful.--ragesoss 01:06, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - It might also help cut down on the number of ill-conceived nominations we get if editors are required to write a paragraph on the picture they nominate rather than just exclaim "beautiful shot". ~ trialsanderrors 01:25, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    - They are mandatory as one of the FPC requirements, but woefully underenforced. The Macarthur picture doesn't even have a source! Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 05:47, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Nice shot, quite touching --⁪froth^t 23:13, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nice composition. ShadowHalo 23:49, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support, that man could take photos gren グレン 03:40, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support I wonder how he made pictures look so good. Basar 06:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Very nice historic photo by famous photographer -- Chris 73 | Talk
Support Yowza, what a great photo we've found here :D although its encyclopedic value may be dubious, it is nonetheless a famous (and I dareday fantastic) photo of good technical quality! Jellocube27 07:45, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support per all above -Wutschwlllm 14:29, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Badgerbadgerba... er, I mean support. --KFP (talk | contribs) 12:20, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Mad Max 22:06, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Manzanar calisthenics 0016u.jpg --KFP (talk | contribs) 00:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]