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Harold Lloyd hangs precariously from a clock in his 1923 film Safety Last!. Forget the 12-storey drop awaiting him should he lose his grip on the minute hand: the real danger in this emblematic image of the silent movie era is the 21st-century woman at the nearby window pointing her camera-phone at his face. This is Flora Borsi, a young Budapest-based artist who has inserted herself into a series of iconic black-and-white photographs, showing us what it would have been like had Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Andy Warhol and others lived in the age of mega-pixels