File:Libertineback.jpg

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Critical commentary accompanies this image. Source: Ballantine Books Web source: http://www.bobkaye.com/ilibertine.html

Fair use rationale[edit]

This book cover qualifies as fair use since the book is the subject of the critical commentary.

Non-free media information and use rationale true for Jean Shepherd
Description

Jean Shepherd posed as Frederick R. Ewing on the back cover of Ballantine's I, Libertine (1956).

Source

book cover

Article

Jean Shepherd

Portion used

back cover, cropped

Low resolution?

234 × 393 pixels, of such low resolution as to have no commercial value whatever

Purpose of use

forms part of the critical commentary on a book discussed in depth in the article, beyond what words can show

Replaceable?

no free image exists or can be created in relation to the subject matter.

Other information

image depicts a significant episode in the career of Jean Shepherd, specifically the creation of a spurious book by a pseudonymous author, and subsequent production thereof. As such it helps to define the author's relationship with fans (who requested the book despite knowing it didn't exist) and his creative mingling of truth and fiction, a major part of his work.

Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Jean Shepherd//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Libertineback.jpgtrue

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current15:15, 28 December 2006Thumbnail for version as of 15:15, 28 December 2006234 × 393 (59 KB)Pepso (talk | contribs){{fair use in Jean Shepherd}} Source: Ballantine Books Web source: http://www.bobkaye.com/ilibertine.html
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