What you’re looking at is a ‘shopped image of Nick Nolte lookin’ real purty in a 1920s-style mugshot. The Tumblr site is called Mugshot Doppelgänger: The 1920’s Doubles of Infamous Celebrity Mugshots and you can read their mission statement below:
There’s a strange connection that draws us into vintage photographs. Seeing doppelgängers (look-a-likes) in old pictures is our brain’s way of linking us to the past. We see what isn’t there - someone recognizable, a family member, maybe a friend, and then there are the ones that bear an uncanny resemblance to modern day celebrities. We’re so used to seeing celebrity faces on our tv, on blogs, and we even know what their mugshots look like. The tacky looking mugshots we have today are in stark contrast to the mugshots taken in the 1920’s. Vintage mugshots have an eerie beauty to them that’s lost in current mugshot photography. What would celebrity mugshots, the ones we’ve become accustomed to seeing on TMZ, look like if instead they were taken in the 1920’s?
There’s a Tumblr for everything, isn’t there?!