The criminal subject : Alphonse Bertillon and Francis Galton, their aesthetics and their legacies

This thesis applies aesthetic language to a variety of practices associated with the production and analysis of criminal identification portraits. Much of what might seem to be standardised in this model of portraiture was influenced by abstract visual techniques that were developed in the late nine...

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Main Author: Francis, Melanie Sarah Jane
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13349/