File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner.jpg

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Description

Author William Faulkner in 1954

Date

11 December 1954

Source

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-DIG-ppmsca-10445.

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under the digital ID cph.3f06403.
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Author



Alternative names	Carl Van Vetchen; Carl van Vechten
Description	American writer and photographer
Date of birth/death	17 June 1880	21 December 1964
Location of birth/death	Cedar Rapids	New York City
Authority file	: Q312851 VIAF: 5056030 ISNI: 0000000115587789 ULAN: 500058409 LCCN: n78095475 NLA: 35576955 WorldCat

Restoration by

Adam Cuerden
Description	British Image restorationist, composer, amateur photographer and artist, and Wikipedian As Adam lives in Britain, which makes it incredibly easy to acquire copyright in his works, he grants, if needed, an irrevokable license to use this work however you see fit. He requests attribution where possible, and realises that "where possible" means that that request is not legally enforcable. Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:44, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
Date of birth	8 June 1979
Location of birth	United States of America

Spots removed, levels adjusted.

Other versions

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File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner.jpg - Restoration (JPEG)
File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner.png - Restoration (PNG)
File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner - Original.tif - Original (TIFF)

Assessment


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Licensing

This work is from the Carl Van Vechten Photographs collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
As the restrictions on this collection expired in 1986, the Library of Congress believes this image is in the public domain. However, the Carl Van Vechten estate has asked that use of Van Vechten's photographs "preserve the integrity" of his work, i.e, that photographs not be colorized or cropped, and that proper credit is given to the photographer.

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	12:26, 20 November 2020	2,507 × 3,526 (3.89 MB)	Tm	Reverted to version as of 20:02, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
	16:52, 19 November 2020	2,507 × 3,366 (4.79 MB)	WikiPedant	Reverted to version as of 13:30, 23 May 2018 (UTC). Color bar is irrelevant. Those were not natural skin tones.
	20:02, 23 May 2018	2,507 × 3,526 (3.89 MB)	Tm	This is a EN wiki featured image, with a colour bar to bout. If you need, upload your version under a new filename
	13:30, 23 May 2018	2,507 × 3,366 (4.79 MB)	Jacek Halicki	bw conversion, curves, cut
	13:48, 12 February 2015	2,507 × 3,526 (3.89 MB)	Adam Cuerden	(uploaded using chunked upload script)
	15:14, 11 February 2015	2,507 × 3,526 (3.89 MB)	Adam Cuerden	Restored version. The colour should be part of the ioriginal image - there is, after all, a colour bar.
	06:19, 22 October 2014	2,424 × 3,360 (1.12 MB)	Materialscientist	grayscale, minor crop, contrast
	06:11, 22 October 2014	3,162 × 3,574 (1.28 MB)	Materialscientist	from http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3f06403/ with color scales
	04:03, 14 May 2012	768 × 1,086 (104 KB)	Tm	Reverted to version as of 11:52, 17 April 2005
	18:51, 29 December 2011	768 × 1,016 (259 KB)	Soerfm	Crop, brightness