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Lot 102 - Alphonse Bertillon Metric photography Raon-l'Étape, Lacour-Berthiaux, 1913 Small 40-page folio, 37.5x26.5 cm, printed cover, distributed by Lacour-Berthiot (who set up a "Technical Institute" to popularize the metric photography methods developed by Alphonse Bertillon). With the help of images and detailed instructions, it presents a number of photographic devices manufactured using the knowledge developed by the director of the Paris police force's Identité judiciaire department to produce photographs of individuals, objects or places that could be used in a variety of scientific fields. scientific fields. A pioneer of scientific investigation, hailed by Conan Doyle in The Hound of the Baskervilles as the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes, Bertillon broadened the study of identity to include all material clues found at the scene of a crime. Without being a work of synthesis, Bertillon multiplied his inventions: photography of corpses and crime scenes, devices for recording traces, transporting clues, etc. He established himself as the world's first forensic scientist. His photographic, chemical and graphological analyses helped to solve numerous criminal cases and contributed to his reputation. In 1899, he was called in at the Dreyfus trial to carry out a decisive graphological analysis of the document proving the accused's treason. Convinced of the officer's guilt, he elaborated an obscure theory that claimed to reveal the forgery of his own handwriting by the accused. Dreyfus himself had falsified his own handwriting in order to mislead the courts. A public campaign was launched against Bertillon, who was vilified by the press, which accused him of supporting state lies and ironized his skills. The Dreyfus affair threatened Bertillon's career, and he narrowly escaped being disbarred from the Prefecture of Police. Defended by Préfet Louis Lépine, he was stripped of the graphic identification service, which was entrusted to the toxicology laboratory, and was unable, as he had hoped, to set up a forensic science unit, which was finally created in Lyon in 1910 by one of his loyal followers, Edmond Locard.This lot is only accessible if you are logged in, and if your age matches your ID.

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Lot 103 - Alexandre Lacassagne Tattoo on the torso of Corsican Antoine Magnani: Les Dernières Cartouches (The Last Cartridges) April 25, 1901 Vintage silver print, 18x24 cm, remarks reversed in the margin of the negative, readable in a mirror Alexandre Lacassagne based his theory on the work of Cesare Lombroso, stating that "tattooing was the inaction resulting from imprisonment, coupled with the impossibility of expressing particularly important ideas and feelings in any other way". Lacassagne collected more than 2,000 tattoos on the skin of 550 French convicts. His study made it possible to analyze the bodies of both prisoners and soldiers. He simply transferred the "bousilles" directly onto the skin, while taking twenty or so notes about the tattooed person and his or her tattooist. The professor distinguished several categories of tattoos: patriotic and religious emblems (91), professional inscriptions (98), inscriptions (111), military emblems (149), metaphorical emblems (260), amorous and erotic (280), fantasy and historical (344). Antoine Magnani, was sentenced to prison for the murder of André Berger, at Navara (com. de Sartène, Corsica), on November 2, 1894. His tattoo depicts the Battle of Bazeilles on September 1, 1870, in particular the heroic scene of the division's marsouins sacrificing themselves to save the French army, a scene immortalized by painter Alphonse de Neuville in his painting "Les dernières cartouches".This lot is only accessible if you are logged in, and if your age matches your ID.

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Lot 108 - Joel David Kaplan, Photographer convicted for murder Portraits of Bonnie Sharie, actresses, reportages New York, 1955-1957 Fourteen vintage silver prints, various sizes, from 18x24 to 30x40 cm, photographer's stamp on verso Joel David Kaplan, was a New York photographer then businessman and nephew of Molasses Tycoon Jacob M. Kaplan, whose J.M. Kaplan Fund was named in a 1964 congressional investigation as a conduit for CIA money for Latin America. Joel David Kaplan was convicted in 1962 for the Mexico City murder of his New York business partner, Louis Vidal Jr. Kaplan claimed at the trial that Vidal, who had been involved in narcotics and gunrunning, had constructed an elaborate plot to disappear. The murder victim, Kaplan maintained, was not even Vidal, and indeed, serious doubts were raised about the body's identity. Kaplan escaped from his Mexican Jail in August 1971, accompanied by Carlos Antonio Contreras Castro, a Venezuelan counterfeiter. Most of the 136 guards at Mexico City's Santa Maria Acatitla prison were watching a movie with the prisoners when a Bell helicopter, similar in color to the Mexican attorney general's, suddenly clattered into the prison yard. Some of the guards on duty presented arms, supposing that the helicopter had brought an unexpected official visitor. The final escape plans - Kaplan had prepared many plans which all failed during the years - had apparently been completed the day before when an American man visited Cell No. 10 and looked over the prison yard. He was accompanied by both men's wives. (Kaplan had married a Mexican woman-the only way he could have visitors, he said-without bothering to divorce New York Model Bonnie Sharie.) After the escape, Kaplan and Castro switched to a small Cessna at a nearby airfield and were flown to La Pesca airport near the Texas border, where two more planes awaited them. One flew Castro to Guatemala; the other flew Kaplan to Texas and then on to California. Kaplan used his own name when he passed U.S. customs at Brownsville. Both the helicopter, which was later found abandoned, and the Cessna had been bought in the U.S., at an estimated cost of $100,000. At week's end neither man had been caught. Kaplan's Mexican attorney declared that his client was a CIA agent and that the rescue had been engineered by the agency. The jail break was so notorious it was even featured in the Charles Bronson film Breakout and became the subject of examinations of conspiracy theories. Kaplan died in Miami in 1988.This lot is only accessible if you are logged in, and if your age matches your ID.

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