Famous People Mug Shots
by Pheasant Run Gallery
Title
Famous People Mug Shots
Artist
Pheasant Run Gallery
Medium
Mixed Media - Digital Art
Description
A mug shot or mugshot (an informal term for police photograph or booking photograph) is a photographic portrait of a person from the waist up, typically taken after a person is arrested.
The original purpose of the mug shot was to allow law enforcement to have a photographic record of an arrested individual to allow for identification by victims, the public and investigators.
Photographing of criminals began in the 1840s only a few years after the invention of photography, but it was not until 1888 that French police officer Alphonse Bertillon standardized the process
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October 13th, 2020
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