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Original - Execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt on July 7, 1865 at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C.
Reason
Execution of four people who conspired with John Wilkes Booth in the Abraham Lincoln Assassination. Restored version of File:Lincoln conspirators execution.jpg.
Articles this image appears in
Abraham Lincoln assassination, Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell (assassin), David Herold, George Atzerodt, Fort Lesley J. McNair, hanging, Capital punishment by the United States federal government.
Creator
Alexander Gardner (photographer)
  • Support as nominator --Durova371 06:12, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per nom. The motion blur on the bodies is annoying, but I don't think we can expect a re-shoot. Clear enc. Noodle snacks (talk) 06:23, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Support Apparently they were still alive... upstateNYer 06:52, 29 November 2009 (UTC); changed to strong support to try and outweigh some of the opposes. This is very important history. upstateNYer 22:50, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Lots of events can be classed as "very important history". The assassination of Julius Caesar, for example. However, we don't HAVE to have a featured picture on the subject, if one is clearly not available. To be a featured picture, it must be both an important subject, AND a decent portrayal of it. Mahahahaneapneap (talk) 23:03, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • Am trying to wrap my head around your argument, Mahahahaneapneap. You call this a subpar portrayal. What, specifically, is inadequate? We do not need the condemned prisoners' faces: good portraits are available for all of them and three of which are feature-worthy (one has already been featured). Their order of position on the scaffold is not in dispute. What this captures is the moment of their death. Motion blur is advantageous in that regard: it gives the image dynamism and indicates how they were swinging. It was much more difficult to photograph this kind of moment than a totally sharp image after a hanging was completed. So you say that technical shortcomings outweigh the encyclopedic value. How so? Durova371 00:11, 2 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • The fact that I can't tell what's happening is the issue for me. If I hadn't read the caption, I would probably still have no idea. Mahahahaneapneap (talk) 00:56, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
          • I don't have issue with known what's happening; I knew precisely what was going on. In fact, without even reading the title, I somehow knew (granted there are few options) that these were Lincoln's assassination conspirators. I don't know how you can't tell they aren't people being hanged, and since they are in the middle of dying, they are of course wiggling, which adds to the effect of the photo. upstateNYer 05:55, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I question Mr A. Gardner's defintion of ""best edition".©Geni 10:03, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    • Could you explain the comment more fully? The phrase "best edition" does not appear anywhere in this nomination or at his biography. Durova371 20:26, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      • When you send something to the libiary of congres to be registered you are ment to send the best edition. In this case the overall quality of the original appears to be rather poor.©Geni 23:41, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        • That's a bit of original surmise. Doesn't take long on the LoC site to notice that Gardner copyrighted all or most of the images he took that day. Per Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial And Execution by James L. Swanson and Daniel R. Weinberg, pp. 24-25, 181 this image was taken closest in time to the moment the sentence was actually carried out. Hence the motion blur. And more specifically, "death struggles" (Swanson and Weinberg, 181). Durova371 02:05, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose Low encyclopaedic value due to the extremely low quality. I would have no idea what is going on without being told. Mahahahaneapneap (talk) 21:17, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Lincoln conspirators execution2.jpg --jjron (talk) 11:49, 10 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]