Retrostock was formed in 2008. Our goal is to provide the best quality retro and vintage stock photos at a reasonable price.
The idea for the website retrostock came from an urge to collect images of other peoples lives. Pictures made by other peoples that are not photographers, we call them snapshots, have a profound unique and individual character. Made to record the lives of the people surrounding the one that operates the camera. These pictures will never be made again and they will also be made over and over again by other families, this is what makes them unique and gives u the best way to define an era. Decades as the fifties, sixties and seventies are the most recorded era’s of the 20th century, these were the decades that the camera and film were available to the masses and relatively cheap to operate. The images that were made in the last century cannot be made again and as unique as they are the will never be made again. Retrostock is a website with a database filled with these kind of pictures, made by everyone who owned an camera and used it. Some times a bit fuzzy but mostly in clear focus. Everything that had to be on the picture was on it.
2009 was the year that the website had it’s first sale. The same year I decided to upload images of stamps, articles and postcards. This year retrostock has over 5200 images online and had over 10000 visitors checking our stuff.
October 2009 the first other photographer has joined www.retrostock.nl to include imagery to fill ‘our’ archive.
November 2009 was the moment I first included photo’s of object of by-gone years, like cell-phones and buttons. The archive is building up slowly, but still its building up.
