Tableau synoptic des traits physionomiques: pour servir a l'étude du "portrait parlé"
Alphonse Bertillon
ca. 1909
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 39.4 x 29.5 cm (15 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2009
Accession Number
2009.16
Tags
EyesMouthsMenPortraitsProfiles
About the Artist
Alphonse Bertillon · 1853–1914
Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914) was a pioneering French photographer whose work revolutionized forensic documentation, transforming police identification into a precise visual science. Born in Paris on April 22, 1853, he was the son of medical professor and statistician Louis-Adolphe Bertillon and the younger brother of demographer Jacques Bertillon. Lacking formal higher education after expulsion ...