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Photography at crime scenes from the 19th century – Bertillon and Sherlock Holmes

This suspicious fellow is Alphonse Bertillon who started photographing crime scenes in Paris in 1888. He is credited with the ‘mugshot’ protocol and discredited for putting handwriting comparisons in the Dreyfus wrongful conviction into a junk science category. Link to … Continue reading

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