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Original – The writer Erica Jong, photographed early in her career by Bernard Gotfryd
Reason
I am nominating this image to call attention to the large archive of public-domain photographs by the underrated journalistic portraitist Bernard Gotfryd. Gotfryd donated his physical images to the Library of Congress and his copyrights to the public upon his death; the LOC has made 8,835 of them available online. He had an interesting life and an interesting style, often praised for his charismatic but unsentimental candor. I don't know that this one is the best one, but it's intriguing, I think the use of natural light works well and represents the kind of improvisation that makes Gotfryd special, and it captures a side of Jong's personality, quite early in her career, not represented in the other photos of her on Commons. I should note that the LOC's date of 1969 seems unlikely--she was unknown at that date (I'm sure the LOC's dates for these are based on Gotfryd's boxes as they received them, so they might well be dates from). Based on her hairstyle in other photographs of her, I suspect it's from 1973, the year Fear of Flying was published. I have cleaned up the most obvious dust (there was plenty) but I know you have high standards for such things here.
Articles in which this image appears
Erica Jong
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator
Bernard Gotfryd, lightly edited by User:Blameless
As an aside, we recently featured his Picture of Angela Davis. A dozen spots around the necklace, another dozen lower right. Also, a blue spot upper right, otherwise pretty darn good. Colours arguably faded, but very authentic for the era. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.5% of all FPs. 02:09, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I'll try to work on those spots tomorrow. That's a great picture of Davis, but I'm not sure what's happening with the images in that article--it looks like Gotfryd's was removed but now the 2014 one is in it twice? Presumably it will stabilize, hopefully with Gotfryd's in it somewhere. blameless 02:43, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
People can be stupid about things. Reverted a bad edit. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.5% of all FPs. 16:12, 8 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Erica Jong by Bernard Gotfryd edit.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 12:27, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]