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The majority of us can't afford a picasso that's why collecting vintage photographs is the second choice. Personally, if my pockets were deeper collecting vintage photographs would be my passion.
There are many factors that makes a vintage photographs collectible and valuable.
1. Prints made before the advent of the negative even if just one or two years prior. and especially oversized american photographs like twelve inches by eighteen and up because this also predates the enlarger.
2. The condition of the print whether paper, silver or albumin (paper washed with egg white to fix the chemicals) must be flawless without tear, stains or other flaws. It will surely appreciate in value.
3. Estate print. This is a print made by someone else after the photographer has died. Though this is less expensive than vintage prints.
4. Editioning. Some photographers number their prints and limit how many they make in order to create rarity. If a great photographer does this its called canny marketing, if a lesser known photographer does this its called hubris.
You can go for whatever theme you want to pursue in collecting vintage photographs. one way is to accumulate a whole album of pictures taken in th early years.
Acquiring one old photograph may not mean much but a whole album of old pictures would prove to be more valuable and in the long run profitable. you can also use the "then and now" approach.
If you happen to stumble upon aphotograph of a certain place, just wait for the right time to take another picture of the exact same place, taken at the same angle. You can display it in frames opposite from the other. isn't that interesting?
Next is to find a vintage photograph with lots of people in it , like the one above. then trace the history of each person in the picture, make a complete dossier of all the people in the picture.
Or you could only accumulate photographs thematically like, collecting only sports pictures, fashion pictures, people wearing hats, or pictures that have cigarettes in it.
Photographs taken by great photographers especially in the early years like Juila Cameron, Ansel Adams, Herb Ritts, David Lachapelle, Irving Penn and Robert Frank just to name a few would fetch in five thousand to a hundred grand and even appreciate more in value in years to come.
In this era, digital technology made taking pictures inexpensive but if you want to be the first digital photograph collector go ahead,who knows digital may soon become the thing of the past.
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