CultureAmerican
Titles
- Mugshot Page
Date1914
PlaceSpokane, Washington, United States
MediumGelatin silver prints with printed text
DimensionsOverall: 16 5/8 × 12 5/8 in. (42.3 × 32.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Anne Wilkes Tucker in honor of Nathan and Joan Lyons
Object number2006.156.A,.B
Non exposé
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By the mid-1840s, just a handful of years after the first public announcement of photography, pictures of alleged and convicted criminals were being produced as a method of tracking the criminal class. In the late 1880s, Alphonse Bertillon, chief of criminal identification for the Paris police, standardized such photographs into what is now known as the “mugshot”—two photos side by side, one frontal and one in profile.
Provenance[Steven Kasher Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2006.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
"CRIMINAL RECORD" printed form, filled in with typeing relating to the suspect, his offense, description and sentenceing..."
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