I’ve been a fan of The Smoking Gun website for a number of years. It has an updated mug shot collection, mostly of famous people. And recently, it’s been grouping mugshots together in archive updates that show tons of people with weird hairstyles one day, or Mickey Mouse shirts the next.
I always considered mug shots a kind of artwork. Found art perhaps. It’s an interesting slice of time… and sanity/insanity.
I looked into it and graphic designer Mark Michaelson has put together a book of found mugshots from his largely eclectic collection. The coffee table book is called Least Wanted: A Century of American Mugshots. The book came out in early 2007. You can buy it on Amazon. And Michaelson did an interview with Smithsonian about it during that time too.
Here’s the Smithsonian interview with a gallery of pics.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/10023281.html#
I especially like the one with the mirror (that saved film and caught the accused’s profile) and the one of Tim O’Brien. (Not to be confused with the author of The Things They Carried.) And is that a cross dresser?
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