Earl Bryan, “Larceny”, 21 April 1948
The negative was almost ruined by light flooding into the camera because the body wasn’t shut properly, and Earl was seated too close to the lens, which meant that his head entirely obscured the board with his booking number on it. (No one noticed that until after the print had been developed, when they wrote the number on the photograph in blue ink.) Whoever took this picture wasn’t used to taking mug shots – an […]