"Vintage mugshots have an eerie beauty to them that’s lost in current mugshot photography," says the website Mugshot Doppelgänger. "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?" Asked and answered, with treatments of Robert Downey, Jr., Phil Spector, Paris Hilton, Nick Nolte, a Kardashian and Amanda Bynes, among others.
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