Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Along with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton was one of the most important comic actors of the silent era. He appeared in dozens of films, and his The General was voted the fifteenth-best film of all time by Sight and Sound readers. Entertainment Weekly also named him the seventh-greatest film director in history.

Very high resolution and high encyclopedic value. I did what I can to adjust the levels from the LOC version, but maybe someone else wants to take a shot at it. (There are also scratches, etc, that probably should be cleaned up a bit, but nothing too bad.) The LOC has one other really high-res portrait of Keaton, but this one I think does a better job of capturing his big-eyed comic look he was known for.

Appears in Buster Keaton and probably could be put in other articles as well (about 500 articles link to the article Buster Keaton). Photo by Bain News Service.

• Nominated by: Calliopejen1 21:49, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

• I'm personally not a big fan of this image, but it could be I just don't like the popular fashion in photography from the time. The painterly background just kills me, I don't like how washed out Buster Keaton is, and the image needs a little bit of cleaning up; the scratches are pretty awful. However, other people might have a different reaction (and might be willing and able to clean it up), so if you feel good about this image, you should nominate it on featured picture candidates. First you need to clarify the copyright status, though; on the image page it just says that there are no known restrictions; who owns the copyright? Is this image in the public domain? Enuja (talk) 17:12, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Seconder:
Nominated at FPC as Buster Keaton by Calliopejen1 on 4 October 2007. --jjron 15:42, 6 October 2007 (UTC)