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

This book is big fun again

Born in Milan in 1937

humorous and full of familiar symbolism

“In this centralized humanity

with a glass of milk)

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