Projet Bertillon has recently launched. Coordinated by IdentiNet participants Ilsen About and Pierre Piazza, and hosted by Criminocorpus, this valuable online resource offers a comprehensive overview of the life and work of Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914), a pioneer of forensic identification methods at the Paris Prefecture de Police whose criminological expertise ranged from mug shots, anthropometry, and dactyloscopy through file management and the analysis of crime scenes. The site, which is available in both English and French, contains innovative online galleries of Bertillon-related imagery as well as academic resources such as biographies, bibliographies, and links, and is also inviting the submission of new articles on Bertillon for online publication in 2011. For further information, please visit Projet Bertillon.
Posts Tagged 'Photography'
Projet Bertillon Launches
Published April 14, 2010 Calls for Papers , Member Activities , Projects and Centres , Websites Leave a CommentTags: Bertillon, Biometrics, Crime, Fingerprinting, Forensics, France, Nineteenth Century, Photography, Policing, Profiling
CFP: Forensic Image and Video Processing
Published April 1, 2009 Calls for Papers , Conferences Leave a CommentTags: CCTV, Crime, Forensics, Photography, Policing, Security, technology
Posted by Massimiliano Pagani. Paper submission is now open for the ‘Special Session on Forensic Image and Video Processing’ at the 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA 2009) that will take place in in Salzburg, Austria on 16-18 September 2009. The objective of this Special Session is to bring together researchers and police forces in order to answer new forensic challenges with state of the art image and video processing research. For more info see the conference website; the call for papers is also available as a pdf. The deadline for the submission of full papers is 15 April 2009.
Exhibition: Photographers and Scientists Explore Identity
Published February 3, 2009 Exhibitions Leave a CommentTags: Genetics, Photography
From police ‘mug shots’ and crime-scene recording to the portraits on civil status documents such as passports and ID cards, the practices of identification and photographic representation are closely related. These connections and others will be visually treated in ‘Photo-ID: Photographers and Scientists Explore Identity’, a major exhibition to be held in Norwich City Centre (UK) throughout August 2009. With financial support from The Wellcome Trust, the exhibition will showcase the work of ten specially-commissioned photographers who will explore the construction of personal and social identity, with special reference to the human genome project and the societal and ethical issues that surround it. The exhibition is free, and will be accompanied by a full programme of educational activities and a book. For further information, visit the exhibition website.
