Bourbasquet. François. 25 ans, né le 11/3/69 à St Avé (Morbihan). Garçon coiffeur. Anarchiste. 2/7/94. 1894

This photograph, taken by Alphonse Bertillon, is a portrait of Bourbasquet, a French anarchist, who was 25 years old at the time the photograph was taken. The image, part of Bertillon's system of criminal identification, is a frontal shot with the subject's face clearly visible, a practice used in mugshots today. This photographic technique was also used for criminal identification in France, where Bertillon developed the system in the 1880s. This photograph, created as part of a larger project to categorize and identify criminals, is a powerful example of the social and scientific uses of photography in the late 19th century.