Webin the 1880s, alphonse bertillon, an anthropologist and chief of the judicial identification service of france, invented the mug shot, a doubled photographic portrait.

Webin the 1880s, alphonse bertillon, an anthropologist who served as chief of france’s judicial identification services, developed the standardized mug shot.

Webin 1879, alphonse bertillon invented a method that combined detailed measurement and classification of unique features with frontal and profile photographs of.

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Webevery mugshot has a story.

Webthe measurements were made into a formula that referred to a single unique individual, and recorded onto cards which also bore a photographic frontal and profile.

They were taken by a french criminologist named alphonse.

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