Godard. Armand, Alexandre. 18 ans, né le 11/3/75 à Paris XVIIe. Électricien. Cris séditieux. 6/1/94. 1894

This photographic portrait, "Godard. Armand, Alexandre. 18 ans, né le 11/3/75 à Paris XVIIe. Électricien. Cris séditieux. 6/1/94.," was taken by Alphonse Bertillon in 1894. Bertillon was a French criminologist known for his development of anthropometry, a system of identification using body measurements. The photograph is a mugshot, a type of identification image used by law enforcement, and serves as a document of the individual, Armand Godard, an electrician, who was arrested on January 6, 1894, for seditious cries. The portrait's format, composition, and inscription are characteristic of Bertillon's photographic practice, and this work is now part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.