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Photograph Subjects of Decades Past Relive Geek Fantasies They Didn’t Know They Had

by Jamie Frevele | 2:27 pm, January 29th

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Have you ever looked at old photos of people from another time period, maybe over a century ago, and wonder, “What’s going through their head right now? Why do they look so … serious?” Besides being shocked by the bright light of a flashbulb, I can’t posit any solid ideas about what these people were thinking that made them look like that. But artist Alex Gross had an idea: maybe they were harboring secret geek fantasies about things that would have sent them straight to the asylum. Gross took a bunch of antique photographs and painted a slew of geek icons over them. And they are not surprisingly wonderful. More after the jump.

First, we’ll cover some DC heroes. Starting with Batgirl:

Batman:

Wonder Woman:

And now, Marvel, starting with Marvel Girl:

Cyclops:

Wolverine:

Star Trek and Star Wars:

And some horror icons, like the Creature from the Black Lagoon:

And Godzilla:

Dear Alex Gross,

Do this forever.

Best regards,
Jamie

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  • https://twitter.com/#!/haversam [A]

    I saw it earlier this week and laughed a lot. Awesome stuff.

  • Anonymous

    Love’d the idea, then he wen’t all gold bikini on me, and feminist Star Wars fangirl died a little inside….

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  • Adam Whitley

    That’s a pretty muscular body in that gold bikini though surely that counts for something.

  • http://twitter.com/acidragdoll Bel

    No, it doesn’t.

  • http://www.DaftGadgets.com Jason Scott

    I like Darth Vader the Best, Ha!