A Malden-based photographer has colorized an assortment of celebrity mugshots that have gone viral online.
Jason Baker, 40, a photographer who’s known for his work in documenting abandoned buildings, recently posted his handiwork on the website Bored Panda and received over 50,000 views. His colorized collection of booking photos has since been garnering attention from far and wide, and has been covered by The Daily Mail in Great Britain and the design magazine DeMilked.
Baker said he was “happy to bring new life to these mugshots and the celebrities,” and “very happy that people are enjoying them.”
“I was actually very surprised that it went viral,” said Baker.
It all started with the now-iconic black-and-white image of David Bowie that was taken in March 1976, after Bowie was arrested on marijuana charges in Rochester N.Y. hotel room. The booking photo that resulted from the incident would later be called by some as “the coolest mugshot of all time.”
Baker decided to put his own touches and transform the black-and-white image into full, living color.
“Getting the idea of it was funny, ‘cause I was bored one day and wanted to do something different,” said Baker. “I love celebrities and then one of my favorite celebrity black-and-white photos was David Bowie.... I wanted to see what it would look like if I colorized and restored it. Then I just got kinda hooked with doing more and more of the celebrities.”
Baker has been on a roll, colorizing law enforcement photos of all kinds of celebrities, from singers and musicians (Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra) to civil rights leaders (Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks) to actors and actresses (Jane Fonda, Al Pacino).
He even colorized a 1959 mugshot of James “Whitey” Bulger that was taken when Bulger was doing time at Alcatraz.
Each one can take anywhere from 30 minutes to “many hours” to complete, he said.
“I’m still new to this process so I try to get the best results that I can,” he said.
“The hardest part of the colorization is trying to get everything as perfect as it can be,” Baker said. “Again I am new to this — so I have a long ways to go — but I’m happy with the results I’ve had for just starting the new journey into another form of photography.”
Emily Sweeney can be reached at emily.sweeney@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @emilysweeney.
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