| Dates: | 1853, 22 April - 1914, 13 February | | Born: | France, Paris | | Died: | Switzerland, Münsterlingen | | Active: | France | | Gender: | Male |
A Parisian police official who used photography to create a photographic library of criminals in the Nineteenth century. He was the first to recognize that by constructing a classification system of visual features one could improve police work by more easily recognizing criminals and repeat offenders.Preparing biographies
General reading
Bertillon, Alphonse, 1885, Identification anthropométrique: instructions signalétiques, (Melun: Typographie-Lithographie Administrative) [Δ]
Ellenbogen, Josh, 2012, Reasoned and Unreasoned Images: The Photography of Bertillon, Galton, and Marey, (Penn State University Press) isbn-10: 0271052597 isbn-13: 978-0271052595 [Δ]
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Family history
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