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Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914) was a French criminologist and police officer who is best known for developing the system of criminal identification known as "Bertillonage." Bertillonage was based on the measurement of specific parts of the body, such as the head, hands, and ears. It was eventually replaced by other forms of identification, such as fingerprinting, which were considered to be more accurate and reliable.
A mug shot or mugshot is a photographic portrait of a person from the waist up, typically taken after a person is arrested made with a purpose to have a photographic record for identification purposes by victims, the public and investigators. A typical mug shot is two-part, with one side-view, and one front-view. The paired arrangement may have been inspired by the 1865 prison portraits taken by Alexander Gardner of accused conspirators in the Lincoln assassination trial, though Gardner's photographs were full-body portraits with only the heads turned for the profile shots. The earliest mugshot photos of prisoners may have been taken in Belgium in 1843 and 1844. In the UK, the police of London started taking mugshots in 1846. By 1857, the New York City Police Department had a gallery where daguerreotypes of criminals were displayed.
Alphonse Bertillon was a French policeman and photographer known for developing the first scientific system of criminal identification. Born in Paris in 1853, he was the son of Louis-Adolphe Bertillon, a prominent physician and statistician. Bertillon joined the Paris police force in 1879 and quickly became interested in developing a more accurate method of identifying criminals. At the time, the only way to identify a criminal was through eyewitness testimony or physical characteristics such as scars or tattoos. Bertillon began experimenting with different measurements of the human body and developed a system that used a combination of measurements to create a unique profile for each individual. This system, known as Bertillonage, involved taking measurements of the head, torso, arms and legs, as well as photographs and detailed descriptions of physical features. The Bertillon system was quickly adopted by police forces around the world and was used to identify thousands of criminals. However, it was not infallible and was eventually replaced by fingerprinting as the primary method of identification. In addition to his work in criminal identification, Bertillon was also a skilled photographer and used his skills to document crime scenes and evidence. He died in 1914 at the age of 61.
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Prisoners photographs from U.S. National ArchivesCollection - Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914)
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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