Description Self-portrait mug shot of Alphonse Bertillon, who developed and standardized this type of photograph, 22 August 1900Ī typical mug shot is two-part, with one side-view photo, and one front-view. Mug shot can more loosely mean any small picture of a face used for any reason. "Mug" is an English slang term for " face", dating from the 18th century. 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.
However, in the United States, entrepreneurs have recently begun to monetize these public records via the mug shot publishing industry. 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. Police mugshot of Patty Hearst taken at the San Mateo County Jail, September 18, 1975Ī mug shot or mugshot (an informal term for police photograph or booking photograph) is a photographic portrait of a person from the shoulders up, typically taken after a person is arrested.
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