It may be difficult for you to understand why anyone would want to give away or to sell their family photographs, but just as there are people that are willing to sell their family photography, there are also people out there who are interested in buying up these old antique photographs even though they are of complete strangers. There are people that are collecting antique photography, and they are actually just as diverse as the images that they are collecting. This is an excellent example of the old adage “One man’s junk is another’s treasure”. This is an adage that surfaces often in the field of collecting and antiquing, and collecting antique photography is certainly no exception to the rule.
It is important for you to keep in mind that antique photography can be sold both as art and as antiques. Rare pictures are typically considered to be art rather than as antiques, where as more common images are going to fit into the antiques category rather than as art. Knowing which is going to be which is unfortunately going to require that you do some research.
Many collectors of antique photography are drawn to a specific subject matter, such as antique photography featuring children, antique photography featuring landscapes, antique photography featuring special events and so on and so forth. Others choose to collect antique photography because it allows them to build a connection with places, people and events from the past. Some people look at antique photography with an artist’s eye, marveling at the quality and the effects of the images that were composed in the past using bulky and rudimentary equipment.
Just with any field of collecting, some people who get into antique photography do so because they have an eye on the concept of investing. They are hoping, after all, to cash in on this field of collecting which has gained popularity in the past 30 years or so. It is extremely important for you to understand different types of antique photography and what equipment was used to take those photographs in order to get the most out of a collection of antique photography.
For example, Daguerreotypes involve producing an image on a copper plate coated with silver. They are the earliest of all photographic images and were first produced in 1839. The Ambrotype is a negative image that was produced using a glass plate and it was introduced in 1854, but it was passé by 1865. In 1856 there were Tintypes, but they had waned in popularity by the time that 1867 rolled around. They were still seen in a number of different forms until as late as the year 1930 however. Often the subject of these images gives way to their true age.
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Originally posted 2009-10-09 03:18:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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