Alex Gross is a full-time artist who is absolutely fascinated by old photos and vintage pictures, especially those with strong hints of the Victorian Era - a time period in which the artist confesses he would like to have lived himself.
There is just something intrinsically beautiful about vintage photos, and Alex Gross has surely done full justice to these old images from the 1870s. Using oil and acrylic the artist has breathed a new life into them, transforming the people of yesterday into incredible vintage superheroes and famous characters of pop culture.
Below, you will find a wide selection of the artist's character design works which we hope you will find enjoyable, so scroll down and see these interesting photos for yourself!
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A noble man transformed into a Nobleman (King). This just seems to be very respectful to this man's memory in some way.
Wait.. is this old-style photoshop? Did he ask the photographer to add a moustache?
Oddly enough, I can actually see some similarities between this man and Hugh Jackman.
What is the character on the right from? It looks pretty disturbing.
I think the movies are still looking for the right actor to play Harvey Dent. In the original comic, he was a shockingly handsome actor, known for his looks, and when he lost his beauty he lost his mind. Maybe Ralph Fiennes/Jude Law/Julian Sands when they were a bit younger?
This reminds me of the Old Joke: Customer to a butcher: Do you have a lamb's head? Butcher: That's just the way my hair is parted
There sure is a lot of Marvel in this post...not that I'm complaining 😺
Props for using Bowie's "Halloween Jack" character, but he's missing an eye patch.
I wonder what this grouping was, since they don't look related - a company photo?
While these are mostly very clever, I hope that they were painted on copies, and not the originals.
When I think about the ubiquity of portraits and selfies today, it's just crazy compared to even a few decades ago when getting your picture taken was a rarer occasion, and then going back to those days where you put on your Sunday best and went to the photo parlor to be photographed maybe once or twice in your life (and sometimes not even until you were dead and your family had a memento mori taken of you). People in the future are going to be overwhelmed with material to reconfigure and work with. These reworkings are pretty cool!
Yes, there's a great book called "Working Stiffs" that's about the working classes' entry into photography (as subjects, that is). Lots of great pix of blue-collar workers, posing with the tools of their trade. Often their dog got to be in the picture too.
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While these are mostly very clever, I hope that they were painted on copies, and not the originals.
When I think about the ubiquity of portraits and selfies today, it's just crazy compared to even a few decades ago when getting your picture taken was a rarer occasion, and then going back to those days where you put on your Sunday best and went to the photo parlor to be photographed maybe once or twice in your life (and sometimes not even until you were dead and your family had a memento mori taken of you). People in the future are going to be overwhelmed with material to reconfigure and work with. These reworkings are pretty cool!
Yes, there's a great book called "Working Stiffs" that's about the working classes' entry into photography (as subjects, that is). Lots of great pix of blue-collar workers, posing with the tools of their trade. Often their dog got to be in the picture too.
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