Check out this article about Alex Gross, an artist who paints on antique cabinet cards, turning photos of anonymous people into wonderful Super Heroes!
Link: http://imprint.printmag.com/daily-heller/alex-gross-sepia-gone-wild/
I think it is a much better life for these old photos than piled up in an antique mall -- there are tons and tons of these vintage unidentified kinda blah photos available, so he's not desroying anything important -- he's making art, which is very important.
Well, not all become Super Heroes.
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