Why are they, with one exception, shown looking to the left, no more than a quarter turn of the head?
These are not the police mugshots we are used to of a defiant or hangdog suspect taken full face or sometimes full profile. What is more, these all seem to be looking definitely at something or someone, not the photographer or the camera
Is it a Scottish thing?
Academic study of photographs can be very fruitful – as for example with numerous studies of the photos of the Raj
I can find only one similar title relating to mugshots – a fruitful area for both an art historical & social history approach, I would have thought
Links
