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Alphonse Bertillon - French criminologist (1853-1914)

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Bertillon	In the 1880s, when a French crime fighter named Alphonse Bertillon pioneered the mug shot as a unique form of portraiture, the photographs he took were expected to do one thing: Help establish an individual's identity at a time when driver's licenses, fingerprint files, and Facebook pages didn't exist. Criminal Verite: mug shots--funny and unusual punishment by Beato, Greg / Reason PM Roget did the research in Britain for his 19th-century thesaurical classification of language, with rigid value judgments on vice and virtue in every word group; Alphonse Bertillon of Paris gave the world the mugshot as a defence against crime, but alas encouraged Cesare Lombroso to invent a physical taxonomy of evil. Typecasting by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk The best thing in "I & A" is a cabinet of photographs of arrestees at a Paris police station, made by Alphonse Bertillon in 1890, which proves conclusively that nonart made at the behest of bad science (in this case, the visual study of "criminal types") is much more powerful as ironic post-Modern art than . Whistling in the park by Plagens, Peter / Artforum International	alphabetic writing alphabetical alphabetically alphabetics alphabetisation alphabetise alphabetised alphabetiser alphabetism alphabetization alphabetize alphabetized alphabetizer alphabetology alphameric alphamerical alphanumeric alphanumeric characters alphanumeric display alphanumerical alphanumerics alphavirus Alpheus alphitomancy Alphol Alphonse Bertillon Alphonse Capone Alphonsine Alphonsine tables Alphonso Alphonsus alphorn alphosis Alpigene alpine Alpine anemone alpine ash alpine azalea alpine bearberry Alpine besseya Alpine celery pine alpine clover alpine clubmoss alpine coltsfoot Alpine Convention Alpine enchanter's nightshade Alpine fir Alpine glacier alpine gold Alpine golden chain alpine goldenrod	Alphebet Alphebet Alphebet Alpheid shrimp Alpheidae Alpheidae Alpheios Alpheios Alphen aan den Rijn Alpheos Alpheos Alpher, Ralph Asher Alpheus Alpheus Alpheus River ALPHGR Alphia Institute of Business Management ALPHIDENT Alphitobius diaperinus Alphitomancy Alphol Alphons Alphons Alphonse Alphonse Alphonse & Gaston Alphonse and Gaston Alphonse Aulard Alphonse Bertillion Alphonse Bertillion Alphonse Bertillon Alphonse Capone Alphonse Capone Alphonse Daudet Alphonse Daudet Alphonse de Candolle Alphonse de Lamartine Alphonse de Lamartine Alphonse de Lamartine Alphonse I Alphonse I Alphonse III Alphonse Laurent Alphonse Laveran Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle Alphonse Mucha Alphonse VI Alphonse VI Alphonse VI Alphonsine Alphonsine tables Alphonsine tables Alphonsine tables Alphonso Alphonso Alphonso Alphonso I Alphonso I Alphonso II Alphonso II Alphonso III

In the 1880s, when a French crime fighter named Alphonse Bertillon pioneered the mug shot as a unique form of portraiture, the photographs he took were expected to do one thing: Help establish an individual's identity at a time when driver's licenses, fingerprint files, and Facebook pages didn't exist.

Criminal Verite: mug shots--funny and unusual punishment by Beato, Greg / Reason

PM Roget did the research in Britain for his 19th-century thesaurical classification of language, with rigid value judgments on vice and virtue in every word group; Alphonse Bertillon of Paris gave the world the mugshot as a defence against crime, but alas encouraged Cesare Lombroso to invent a physical taxonomy of evil.

Typecasting by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

The best thing in "I & A" is a cabinet of photographs of arrestees at a Paris police station, made by Alphonse Bertillon in 1890, which proves conclusively that nonart made at the behest of bad science (in this case, the visual study of "criminal types") is much more powerful as ironic post-Modern art than .

Whistling in the park by Plagens, Peter / Artforum International

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