{"id":6423,"date":"2011-02-14T16:18:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T00:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=6423"},"modified":"2011-02-14T16:18:23","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T00:18:23","slug":"picture-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2011\/02\/14\/picture-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture That!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nAcclaimed movie poster photographer Peter Tangen points lens at Real Life Super-Heroes for latest projec<\/em>t
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\nThere are Real Life Superheroes among us.
\nAll across the country, these solitary do-gooders have been donning costumes and going out into the night for years. Inspired by comic book morality to do the right thing, some fight crime, others work as social activist and still other s patrol the streets, providing aid for the homeless and downtrodden.
\nSo photographer Peter Tangen decided to rescue these everyday heroes from obscurity.
\n\u201cI read an article in a magazine about a man named Master Legend, a real life superhero working in Florida. AT the time he was basically a slightly overweight man in spandex and was effectively a costumed activist,\u201d says Tangen of his first exposure to the phenomenon. \u201cWhen I realized there were many of these people all across the country, I thought, \u2018Well, I\u2019m going to photograph these guys.\u2019\u201d
\nFor their own Jimmy Olsen, real life superheroes can do a lot of worse than Tangen, who has made his living shooting the iconic images that adorn the movie powers for the \u201cSpider-Man\u201d movies, \u201cBatman Begins\u201d and Hellboy\u201d, among others.
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