The Estadio Centenario, Opening Year
period photograph, 1930
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 30% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe first purpose-built temple of the world game. Uruguay raised the Estadio Centenario for the centenary of its constitution and the first World Cup at once — ninety thousand capacity, poured in nine months of rain, the concrete still curing as the teams arrived in July 1930. The Torre de los Homenajes rises over the bowl like a lighthouse for a sport about to circle the earth. Photographed in its first season and cleared in ours, it is the proof of a national conviction: build it before the legend, and the legend moves in.
- Maker
- period photograph
- Date
- 1930
- Medium of the original
- Period photograph
- Original held by
- Unknown photographer, 1930 · Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Unknown photographer, 1930 · Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01084
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 30% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 25% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 16% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 2,768 x 1,557 px, b-w
- Tone
- Darks 39, lights 209 of 255; 0.7% clipped light, 0.1% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 62.39
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