vintage printa vintage print is one made around the time of the making of the negative - within five years is now the generally accepted definition. A vintage print is the type most valued by dealers and collectors because it not only represents the photographer's first - and possibly freshest thoughts - but also because of its historical and material links with the picture's making. Photographic papers and materials are constantly changing (papers, for example, have less silver content today than previously), so a vintage print is consider the most authentic expression of a photographer's vision because it is made from materials contemporaneous with the negative.A vintage print, however, is not necessarily the best print in aesthetic terms. Strictly speaking the definition is chronological rather than qualitative, although its beauty as a marketing term is that vintage clearly has connotations of quality.απο το Collecting Photographyby Mitchell Beazley