Desperate Images

Viewing Life From a Safe Distance

A Moment in Photographic History:
The first police mugshots. The New York Illustrated News for 19 March, 1851 reads: “Major Gilpin, of Philadelphia, has had daguerreotypes taken of all the noted characters arrested within the past year or two, and he has now quite a gallery of the celebrities. This is an excellent police arrangement.”
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A photographic Quote of Note:
Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.  – - – - – - Percy W. Harris

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