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Original – Brazillian author Machado de Assis
Reason
Full disclosure: I'm not sure the skintones are perfect, but that's typical of photographs of the time. In photographs of him in crowds he doesn't appear to be so dark-skinned that I'd consider this entirely misleading, and this article describes him as a "light-skinned mulatto" - I presume that last term is much more acceptable in Brazil. Still, at least to modern eyes, it's probably lightening his skin at least a little bit. They tended to put a lot of light on the faces of dark skinned individuals to try and pull more detail since the film of the time lacked good differentiation of darker colours (and probably for racist reasons as well).
That disclosure and the problems noted therein aside, for the time, this is quite a good photo. I did tweak levels to make it as unmisleading as possible. But I do believe that one should be honest about any flaws in the image when nominating.
Articles in which this image appears
Machado de Assis
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Artists and writers
Creator
Marc Ferrez, restored by Adam Cuerden

Promoted File:Machado de Assis by Marc Ferrez.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 18:09, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]