In his Mixed Media
collection, L.A. based artist Alex Gross found vintage portraits and
re-imagined the Victorians as superheroes and villains. The crazy costumes
notwithstanding, the effect contemporizes the solemn faces of Civil War
veterans, society matrons, and school boys with our modern, pop-culture
obsessed world. I’ve always felt remorse for the long-forgotten people in those
discarded photographs in the bins of dusty antiques stores but now at least
some of them have been rescued from obscurity. Gross has released a book called
Now and Then: The Cabinet Card Paintings, available on Amazon, that includes photos of the original
images before their transformations
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