Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cardiss Collins

Cardiss Collins

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Original – United States Representative Cardiss Collins

Reason

While this does show its age in its composition quite a bit, Cardiss Collins was an amazing woman - I don't think all this is in her biography, but - she basically took over a congressional seat on her husband's death, and had to grow into the position, conquering shyness and lack of confidence to rise to powerful positions - President of the Congressional Black Caucus, ranking member of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee, and 24-year Representative for Illinois's 7th district.

Articles in which this image appears

Cardiss Collins +4

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political

Creator

Photographer uncredited; restored by Adam Cuerden

• Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 04:50, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
• I'll have to Oppose this one - it looks like it is a second- or third-generation reproduction of the original photo; it has lost much highlight and shadow detail. --Janke | Talk 09:12, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
  • @Janke: I'm not sure you're right, but, that said, I'm not sure my explanation - that I think the image was a little over-exposed as most images of darker-skinned people were before colour film came in - will change your mind. There's PLENTY of shadow detail, it's the highlights and, to a lesser extent, the midtones that are a little lacking. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 18:26, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
• Support - Looking at various other images of her during this time frame (1970s), this looks to be among the best. The later pictures of her (1990s/2000s) are a bit better balanced, lighting-wise, but I don't know how many of those are free. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:00, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
• Support - per Crisco - and I thank him for taking the extra step. Atsme^📞📧 14:09, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
• Support – Jobas (talk) 14:47, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
• Comment At the provided source link http://baic.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?intID=40 I get "Error connecting to MSSQL server". Perhaps an archived link would work. Brandmeister^talk 15:20, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
  • @Brandmeister: Sorry, it's basically the same link as the PDF I linked as the proximate source for Barbara Jordan. I've updated the info. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 16:04, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 21:56, 17 February 2016 (UTC)

Promoted File:Cardiss Collins - Restoration.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 07:25, 24 February 2016 (UTC)