The history of police photography is commonly believed to begin in the 1850s when the first portraits of prisoners were taken. A close relationship between medical, anthropological and judicial photography is assumed. The investigation of the photographic practices in the prison and at the police reveals that the general discourse on photography was far more important for the application of photography in penal institutions. When the criminal police began to use photographs systematically in the 1870s it was more to display effectiveness than a real means of detection. After some years of collecting, the collections became cumbersome and unmanageable. Alphonse Bertillon's innovations solved this problem and later he introduced a specialised...
International audienceAs accurate historians have sufficiently exposed, photographic techniques were...
This paper examines fingerprint identification as a mode of state surveillance. Drawing on but criti...
Rizzo L. Policing the image: the Breakwater prison albums, Cape Town, in the late nineteenth and ear...
The history of police photography is commonly believed to begin in the 1850s when the first portrait...
Photography promised 'an enhanced mastery of nature' and was adopted by the police and prison servic...
Can a photograph demonstrate, reveal or prove what really happened? Certainly a photograph shows som...
ABSTRACT: Photography is the combination of two sciences that transpose the real moments spent into ...
It reflects on current approaches to crime scene photography described in numerous photographic publ...
This article considers and early example of technologically-mediated visual surveillance: the use of...
This article analyses the curious development and subsequent refinement of the Photo-FIT system for ...
A unique series of convict portraits was created at Tasmania’s Port Arthur penal station in 1873 and...
It is said that "one picture is worth a thousand words". This implies that pictorial testimony has ...
This article examines prisoner photography in Qajar Iran encompassing images not only of criminals b...
Crime pictures. Rodolphe Archibald Reiss’ forensic photography At the end of the 19th century, the ...
Photography is admitted as one of the widely used methods in criminal investigation which has a sign...
International audienceAs accurate historians have sufficiently exposed, photographic techniques were...
This paper examines fingerprint identification as a mode of state surveillance. Drawing on but criti...
Rizzo L. Policing the image: the Breakwater prison albums, Cape Town, in the late nineteenth and ear...
The history of police photography is commonly believed to begin in the 1850s when the first portrait...
Photography promised 'an enhanced mastery of nature' and was adopted by the police and prison servic...
Can a photograph demonstrate, reveal or prove what really happened? Certainly a photograph shows som...
ABSTRACT: Photography is the combination of two sciences that transpose the real moments spent into ...
It reflects on current approaches to crime scene photography described in numerous photographic publ...
This article considers and early example of technologically-mediated visual surveillance: the use of...
This article analyses the curious development and subsequent refinement of the Photo-FIT system for ...
A unique series of convict portraits was created at Tasmania’s Port Arthur penal station in 1873 and...
It is said that "one picture is worth a thousand words". This implies that pictorial testimony has ...
This article examines prisoner photography in Qajar Iran encompassing images not only of criminals b...
Crime pictures. Rodolphe Archibald Reiss’ forensic photography At the end of the 19th century, the ...
Photography is admitted as one of the widely used methods in criminal investigation which has a sign...
International audienceAs accurate historians have sufficiently exposed, photographic techniques were...
This paper examines fingerprint identification as a mode of state surveillance. Drawing on but criti...
Rizzo L. Policing the image: the Breakwater prison albums, Cape Town, in the late nineteenth and ear...