The Armies at the Buffalo, March 1926
Agence Rol, 1926
$270
Print check at 24 x 18 in: 212 dpi, excellent. Trimmed 5.4% to the shape of the print.
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The 11th of March, 1926, at the Stade Buffalo: the French army against the British. Eight years earlier these two armies had shared the worst ground in Europe, and a great deal of the football played between them in the 1920s was the same men, or their younger brothers, doing something else together on purpose. The service fixture was not a novelty; it was a deliberate institution, and the crowds took it seriously. This is the most quietly loaded photograph in the collection: two armies, one ball, a Paris afternoon. Some rematches are arranged precisely so that nothing is at stake.
- Maker
- Agence Rol
- Date
- 1926
- Medium of the original
- Glass plate negative
- Original held by
- Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1926 · Wikimedia Commons
- Credit
- Agence Rol / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1926 · Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-01107
| Picture | 24 x 18 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 25.6 x 19.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
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 | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 x 8 in | 450 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.1% |
| 14 x 11 in | 348 | Excellent | Trimmed 9.7% |
| 16 x 12 in | 319 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.4% |
| 18 x 12 in | 300 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.1% |
| 24 x 16 in | 225 | Excellent | Trimmed 6.1% |
| 24 x 18 in | 212 | Excellent | Trimmed 5.4% |
| 30 x 20 in | 180 | Good | Trimmed 6.1% |
| 36 x 24 in | 150 | Good | Trimmed 6.1% |
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 11% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | 127 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 48 x 36 in | 106 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
| 60 x 40 in | 90 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 5,400 x 3,833 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 22, lights 222 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 1.18
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