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Dragomen Eating, not featured[edit]

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Two Arab dragomen enjoying a meal. Picture taken approx. 1889 A.D. and reveals the traditions related to cuisine and clothing at late 19th century in the Levant.
  • Although it's a 120-yo photo, its quality surpass some of your 2MP pictures that you yourself have uploaded using recent technologies. Maybe nothing may seem extraordinary to you, but it should be noted that it's rather rare to find historical photos from the 19th century about cuisine traditions in the Levant.--Banzoo (talk) 22:30, 3 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Support Photography, and a photograph, can be a social document of great value. Photographs, with time, become windows into the past, bringing into today events, depictions of people or places that can be rich documents of knowledge. Whether we recognize their value or not does not diminish their value, but rather, points more to our lack of sensitivity or lack of knowledge. This picture, from the photographic perspective alone, and considering the time it was taken, tells us about a competent photographer that while the subjects seemed too posed, took care to record important cultural elements into account and preserved them for us, with very good photographic technique and equipment available at that time. Photography has changed with time and technology, but there are core elements within the media that remain stable, such as photography as a recorder of reality, conditions, etc., and in this case, this photograph is a frozen moment from the past. Even in its time, considering that most people were unable to withness different ethnic groups, this picture surely served as the television of their time, allowing people to see people from far off places, etc. If I analize this photograph from a perspective that does not take into account history and the notion of photography as a social document, well, some people may consider it bad. In my personal point of view, this picture is featurable because a) It is a good photograph from its time, b) good composition; c)good photographic technique; d) good darkroom technique; and most important, e) a valuable historical document. --Tomascastelazo (talk) 02:15, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Neutral for now. It looks like parts are overexposed (ie right man's hand), If it's from the import process then it should be fixed first. --ianaré (talk) 05:35, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  •  Oppose – ditto to Alvesgaspar. And bad crop at the top right, with part of that whatever-it-is the man is looking at, cut off. - MPF (talk) 18:03, 4 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 2 support, 4 oppose, 1 neutral → not featured. /--Cayambe (talk) 15:25, 11 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]