Sans titre, M. Bertillon Special Editions This book is big fun

This book is big fun again

humorous and full of familiar symbolism

This is not merely a record of demolition but a tribute to the power of photography

with 9 drawings by Franco Matticchio

Sans titre, M. Bertillon Special Editions This book is big funCondition: cover damaged with a tear By fixing the form of identity, Alphonse Bertillon modified our faces. From an eminently personal element, he made a tool of the State, an instrument of identification: a gridded, readable, occulted, talkative, divided, synthetic surface; a necessary, sufficient summary of the multiple realities of an individual. From this heritage, on the surface of every one of our contemporary faces, established as interfaces