New Orleans Mug Shots
Posted in Visual Art on Aug 11th, 2023
Mug shots often seem to possess a truth that formal portraits and candid snapshots rarely do. These police-station pictures are taken – are made – on the occasion of a discovered transgression: violence, deceit, immorality. The pictures, snapped soon after the subject’s arrest, convey defiance, inebriation, disaster, or shame, visual embodiments of whatever darkness […]