Tag: Mugshots
A police department in North Miami Beach made headlines last week when it was discovered they were using mugshots of black men for target practice. Now, some unlikely meme-creators are trying to break the internet with a Twitter protest campaign. The #UseMeInstead campaign was started on a Facebook group for Lutheran clergy. The idea is for priests […]
Here are some classic vintage mugshots of “all round thieves,” “warehousebreakers” and “bad characters” from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums via the World’s Best Ever. Their general olde timey-ness is amusing, but the fanciful descriptions of their “marks” are fascinating: “Heart, clasped hands, Ture Love, Evelyn;” “extensively tattooed forearms and hands;” “8 dots tatt. left forearm;” “blue dot between […]
These types of Australian mugshots resurface once in awhile, but this batch of face / full body diptychs is the most gorgeous set I’ve ever seen. They were shot in the ’20s and discovered in ’89. They’re actually 4-by-6-inch glass plate negatives. That means one giant bulky camera and lots of set-up. The most proper of […]
