Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rosie the Riveter 2

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[edit] Real Life Rosie

Reason

I stumbled across this picture and was stunned, just stunned by it. It's a Featured Picture on Commons, and it really ought to be featured here, too. It's nice, big, full color photo from 1942, illustrating a pivotal component (and a cultural icon) of America's war effort in World War II, Rosie the Riveter, the women of America's work force. We already have Image:Rosie the Riveter.jpg (the famous "We Can Do It" propaganda) as a featured picture, and this compliments it, wonderfully showing the people the ad was illustrating. Again, just a stunning photograph.

Proposed caption

Rosie the Riveter was a name applied to thousands of women who replaced men in the factories on the United States home front during World War II. Here, a metal lathe operator machines parts for transport planes at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas.

Articles this image appears in

Rosie the Riveter, War effort, Home front during World War II, and others

Creator

Howard R. Hollem, as an official work of the U.S. Government

• Support as nominator Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 21:16, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support Wow...incredible quality for a photo from 1942. CillaИ ♦ XC 04:17, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support I had intended to nonminate this image when the size for it was high enough to do so, however I see you have beaten me to it :) I took a stab a righting a few lines for the caption, some else may want to improve on it. TomStar81 (Talk) 07:22, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support. Classic. --Janke | Talk 08:20, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support with slight reservations. The background (well, all the machinery) is pretty dark; I tried a gamma correction + a touch more contrast, but then the color seemed less lifelike. Maybe someone else can do better. I like the drama of her spiking out like that, especially her muscular & grimy arm, but it seems to me we should be able to see what she's doing better. The other is the awkward timing that caught her with her eyes shut, probably flash-related. I don't think you can operate a lathe safely with your eyes closed! --Dhartung | Talk 08:54, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

• Her eyes are open, as her pupil can be seen. This picture is from 1940, so I'm not sure if somebody should attempt to do better. Of the qualities of this picture, the most prominent are its historicity and its detail. Puddyglum 21:24, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

• Neutral: adjusted caption, added links. —Vanderdecken∴ ∫ξφ 09:27, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support - Good from the time, historical valaue too --Childzy ¤ Talk 13:32, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support --Mbz1 15:11, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
• Support I think that enough of the lathe is visible to provide context, and that any more would distract from the woman. She is the subject, not the machine.--HereToHelp 16:04, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Support. In response to the comment, I note that the lathe article doesn't appear to currently have any photos of a worker using a lathe, and this image might be suitable to illustrate that article. Spikebrennan 21:10, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

• Support Very nice and powerful pic. And of course, encyclopedic. Jumping cheese 04:05, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
• Support Puddyglum 21:24, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
• Support, high quality, historical image. Well composed, good moment captured to suggest action, and her figure stands out because it's well contrasted against the darker machines, which are visible enough to indicate what they are. Great detail due to high resolution. Postdlf 02:01, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
• Support: Good pic, high enc value. --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 14:21, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
• Support Great --Central Powers 15:10, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
• Comment — Hey, I thought that looked familiar. ♠ SG →Talk 04:04, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:WomanFactory1940s.jpg MER-C 03:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC)