Aleksei Losev.jpg

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Description	Monochrome photograph of Aleksei Losev, Russian philosopher, pictured prior to 1930 when he was sentenced to hard labor.
Author or copyright owner	unknown
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: unknown Immediate source: http://orthpedia.de/index.php/Datei:Alexej_Lossew1.jpg Also published on the cover of the 2007 book Постигая прозу А.Ф.Лосева ("The Art World of Prose AF Losev") by Elena Takhoe-Godi. See http://www.russ.ru/Kniga-nedeli/Postigaya-prozu-A.F.Loseva. The image appears at the following web page: http://ruskline.ru/analitika/2010/02/02/aleksej_losev_i_razgadka_xx_veka/ ("Aleksei Losev, and the solution of the XX century").
Date of publication	unknown
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Aleksei Losev
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Losev is deceased.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	This will be the only image of Losev in the article.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	This image is cropped vertically and also reduced in size in all dimensions by resampling, which also reduces the value as compared to the original. The overall width is only 250 pixels.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1988
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