They were taken by a french criminologist named alphonse.
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Webin the 1880s, alphonse bertillon, an anthropologist who served as chief of france’s judicial identification services, developed the standardized mug shot.
Webthe measurements were made into a formula that referred to a single unique individual, and recorded onto cards which also bore a photographic frontal and profile.
Webin 1879, alphonse bertillon invented a method that combined detailed measurement and classification of unique features with frontal and profile photographs of.
Webin the 1880s, alphonse bertillon, an anthropologist and chief of the judicial identification service of france, invented the mug shot, a doubled photographic portrait.