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Calling a portrait "vintage" risks aestheticizing something that was lived experience. But the word earns its place when the image was made contemporaneously with what it depicts — these faces weren't vintage when Czimber painted them, they were current. They've become vintage in the same way the people in them have: through time passing, and through a way of life that no longer exists in the same form. The recovery they show was real, and the faces are its record — older now, but no less honest about what they contain.