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Mädchenhandel

Name: Mädchenhandel
Brand: The Picture Palace
SKU: PA-00831

Mihály Bíró, 1927

The Picture PalacePA-00831Tear sheet

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No print size passed the check for this piece: at 8 x 10 in, Wrong shape: a 16% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.

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Mihály Bíró's 1927 poster for the Vienna premiere of Mädchenhandel — Eine internationale Gefahr, a film on international trafficking. The Aufklärungsfilm — the 'enlightenment picture' — occupied a peculiar zone between social reform and commercial sensation, and its advertising had to do both jobs at once. Bíró's sheet is the clearest surviving instance of that double register. How little the design explains. A single figure and a title were expected to carry a subject the poster could not name outright. Reform and exploitation, printed in the same ink.

Maker: Mihály Bíró
Date: 1927
Medium of the original: One-sheet poster
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00831

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.

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Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 10 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
8 x 12 in	94 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
11 x 14 in	Wrong shape: a 14% crop
12 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
12 x 18 in	63 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 20 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
16 x 24 in	47 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
18 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
20 x 30 in	37 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 16% crop
24 x 36 in	31 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
30 x 40 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
36 x 48 in	Wrong shape: a 10% crop
40 x 60 in	18 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged