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Hi, I’m [...] from the Futbol Club Barcelona Documentation Centre. The reason of this e-mail is that this next September the Futbol Club Barcelona will celebrate the fiftieth Anniversary of the Camp Nou Stadium with the inauguration of an exposition on the second floor of the Futbol Club Barcelona Museum. One of the resources that we have planned to show are pictures about the most important stadiums in the world.

We’ve have found one of your photos and wondered whether you might allow us to use this on the exposition. We would be happy to credit you as the photographer on the image.

If you could let me know if this would be ok we’d be very greatful.

Best regards,

[...] Futbol Club Barcelona Documentation Centre

Astonishingly, it actually seems to be kosher.

Located on the second floor of the Club Museum, (in the Camp Nou Grandstand), the Documentation Centre is dedicated to the history of FC Barcelona and is divided into a Press Archive, Library, Historic Archive and Photography Archive. It was inaugurated in 1994 and is free to anybody with an interest in learning more about our club’s past.

How bizarre.

May I be the first to observe that the photo – a snatched snap – is not actually all that good.