Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Che Guevara

Guerrillero Heroico

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Original – Portrait of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, taken by Alberto Korda on 5 March 1960, at the La Coubre explosion memorial service.

Alt 1: Hand-restored by Adam Cuerden from apparent original of the above.

Reason

High resolution, really popular image, high quality. Probably one of the most iconic portraits of all time, it even has its own article. There was a previous nomination for this image which failed to be promoted to featured picture status, however that was a lower quality and highly compressed older version of the photo which was uploaded in 2006. It has since now been updated and I believe it deserves the status.

Articles in which this image appears

Che Guevara, Guerrillero Heroico, Communist symbolism, Beret, Mike Tyson's tattoos, List of photographs considered the most important, Anti-Americanism etc.

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Political

Creator

Alberto Korda

• Support as nominator – Howardcorn33 (talk) 19:36, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
• Compared to File:Heroico1.jpg, it looks like a bunch of grain has been removed using a blur tool. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 21:09, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
• Comment: I did not create this image, I only performed some reverts. The lack of grain is claimed to be the result of AI cleanup, but I do not know if this is true or not. — Huntster (t @ c) 22:34, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

  I don't think AI cleanup is a good idea for old photos. AI does not understand film grain. Oppose Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 08:53, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

  I've found what I think is the true source - that image definitely isn't the V&A image - given the appearance of lines and spots based on damage to it, especially the one on the cap. .

  

  I'll clean that up later. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 09:11, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

  Restoration uploded. Support Alt 1 Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.6% of all FPs.} 23:17, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

• Support Alt 1 --Yann (talk) 13:15, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
• Support Alt 1 that's pretty good! certainly better than the one i posted - Howardcorn33 (talk) 17:21, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
• Support Alt 1 – Hamid Hassani (talk) 03:37, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
• Support Alt 1 - DreamSparrow ^Chat 06:14, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
• Support Alt 1 --Petar Milošević (talk) 10:53, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
• Support Alt 1.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 05:52, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Promoted File:Che Guevara - Guerrillero Heroico by Alberto Korda.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 19:53, 8 November 2023 (UTC)