English: The only extant photograph of American bluesman
Charley Patton, circa 1929. Patton sits at a chair with a
Stella guitar. The portrait was likely taken in
Grafton, Wisconsin—the headquarters of
Paramount Records—at either a photography studio or recording studio. An image of Patton's face (cropped from this photo) had been discovered in the early 1960s, but the full portrait was not uncovered until 2002 when John Tefteller found it while searching for blues records and ephemera on a trip to Grafton and Port Washington.
English: The full photo was first published in 1929 or 1930 and rediscovered/republished in 2002 after it had entered the public domain.
Original source: The photo was originally published in at least two different forms: a Paramount publicity photo (most likely distributed to newspapers) and a 1930 Paramount promotional calendar distributed by the F. W. Boerner Company. (Boerner was responsible for Paramount's graphics and marketing from 1930–1934, and his company distributed the remainder of Paramount's unsold records after the label went out of business in 1932.) The tighter crop showing just Patton's face was published in a 1929 Paramount supplement.
Instant source: High-res scan via
NewSounds.org. Retouched by uploader; see unretouched original in upload history below.
This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications made by
Blz 2049.
Author
English: Photo published by Paramount Records and the F. W. Boerner Company. Photographer uncredited and unknown.
This image is in the public domain because it is a mere mechanical scan or photocopy of a public domain original, or – from the available evidence – is so similar to such a scan or photocopy that no copyright protection can be expected to arise. The original itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
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p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
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