What is Vintage Historical photographs? It’s a photo library and search engine all in one – V like Vintage bridges the gap between analogue photography and digital technology – and invites all amateur photographers, collectors and anyone interested in history on a fascinating journey through time featuring the countless faces of history. For this purpose, V like Vintage addresses all those who own historic photographs.

Nowadays, there are treasures to be found in every country. One of the main tasks of V like Vintage consists of finding them and putting them on display. It is an attempt to encourage other photo enthusiasts to post their pictures on our website so that these treasures are not lost, but visible for all to see.

Photographer: Erich Andres

On the one hand, the focus is on private photographs – precious contemporary documents which were previously only marvelled at by the owners of old family albums and can now be made accessible to a large photo community. We enjoy looking at the pictures the new users post. They feature anything from beach holidays dating back several decades to war scenarios.

At the same time, V like Vintage serves as a search engine for professional providers such as archives, galleries and publishing houses. The membership, which, with the essential features, is currently still free of charge, enables all owners of private and commercial photo collections, amateur pictures and fine art photographs to upload the latter for free. In terms of user friendliness, the description, the assignment of keywords and the geographic classification of the photos ensure that they are as easy to find as possible.

 At present, there are still generations among us who have amazing photographs in their homes which nobody is aware of. But in ten to fifteen years, that could all be gone. Many of these treasures will be destroyed – throughout the world. However, the older we get, the more these documents, these old pictures are elevated to an art form. Imagine we had the last one hundred and fifty years captured in a photo – that would be the most unambiguous form of communication!

With V like Vintage, we would like to contribute to these unique photographic documents being preserved for generations to come.

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