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Vintage photographs usually do not have an edition number on them. This does not mean, they are less valuable than modern day photographic prints where the photographer decides from the first print on, how many of this particular image he or she is going to print.
Before the 1950's - unless the image was turned into a postcard or a Carte de Visite - photographers printed images on demand and usually not more than one or two photos at a time. In other words you are looking at a unique piece of art, that is one of a kind!
You might think that, because there is a negative and the posssibility to reprint a hundred or a thousand of them, the vintage photograph without the edition is of a lesser value.
On the contrary: Most vintage photographs can be seen as an original and the print you are looking at is the only one!
Photography started out with Formal Portraiture, a close second being Vintage Nude Photography. With cameras becoming more portable, Landscape Photography was established, and then photographing your own motorcycle roadtrip, on the move, became possible!
The popularity of collecting vintage photography started in the early 1990's. That means most masters died way before and never even thought of producing more than one or two prints. Often they even threw away the negative.
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