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Alphonse Bertillon (French: [bɛʁtijɔ̃]; 22 April 1853 – 13 February 1914) was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to ...
The Groundbreaking Work of Alphonse Bertillon, the Man Who Invented the Mug Shot. For more than a century, mug shots have helped police catch criminals. Those photos of a person's face and profile trace their roots to Paris in the late 19th century. They were taken by a French criminologist named Alphonse Bertillon, and his techniques set the ...
Alphonse Bertillon (born April 23, 1853, Paris, France—died February 13, 1914, Paris) was the chief of criminal identification for the Paris police (from 1880) who developed an identification system known as anthropometry, or the Bertillon system, that came into wide use in France and other countries. Mug shot with Bertillon measurements ...
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Before developing his “mug shot”/anthropometric system, Bertillon, who worked in 1879 as an Assistant Clerk for the Paris Police, copied verbal descriptions of criminals onto index cards, and found that job not only tedious, but lacking in tangible specificity when it came to describing human appearances. He turned to photography to help provide a ...
Photography’s utility for creating an archive for identifying human “types,” or “typologies,” was noted by photographer and theorist Allan Sekula, who wrote that this use of the medium was especially common in the late nineteenth century, due to the popular pseudo-sciences of physiognomy and phrenology. Physiognomy(assessing a person’s character fr...
Kris Belden-Adams, Eugenics, ‘Aristogenics,’ Photography: Picturing Privilege(New York: Routledge, 2020). Elizabeth Edwards, “Evolving Images: Photography, Race and Popular Darwinism,” in D. Donald and J. Munro, eds. Endless Forms, Darwin, Natural Sciences and the Visual Arts(New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2009), pp 166–93. Anne Maxwell, ...
Feb 23, 2017 · Alphonse Bertillon (24 April 1853 – 13 February 1914) was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to identify criminals. Before ...
Mar 22, 2017 · This system, invented in 1879, became known as the Bertillon system, or bertillonage, and quickly gained wide acceptance as a reliable, scientific method of Alphonse Bertillon (1853 - 1914) was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements.
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Man who invented the mug shot: The ground-breaking work of Alphonse Bertillon As a new exhibition investigates the evolution of the forensic sciences, Nick Clark pores over the unparalleled ...
