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Art & Antiques Feature on Collecting Vintage Photos
Friday, 02 December, 2011
Snapshot Poetics
December 2011
By Edward M. Gomez
Vernacular photography, a growing, collector-driven field, finds mystery and masterpieces in the lenswork of unknown amateurs.
In a world in which photographs are everywhere, all the time, what makes a photographic image special? For a small but growing, disparate community of aficionados, the answer is a mix of unexpectedly strong qualities found by chance in an extraordinary old print at a flea market. Made by unknown, non-professional photographers, such images can be emotionally powerful, formally masterful or both, and the hunt for them has fostered one of the most exciting collecting categories to have emerged in recent years. The fact that it has been driven by collectors, based on their own research and nurtured by their passions, and not cooked up by profiteering art dealers looking to score, also makes it one of contemporary collecting’s most fascinating trends. click here to read entire article
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