Photography is one of the most reliable forms of identification. Most formal forms of identification tend to be a passport or a licence of some sort, but lots of photographs have ways of making us identify somebody without it being the same old passport photo style with boring lighting and same focal length.
These two images we find more memorable as this is what has been showed to us more often.
The photograph of Saddam Hussein is memorable to us as this is when he was captured and this is what was shown to us on the news.. We didn’t get to see the mug shot of him which is how most people remember other criminal such as Al Capone.
The mug shot of Michael Jackson is one of many similar shots that have documented the surgical changes he has made to his appearance. They have the typical style of the ‘mug shot’ the boring lighting and the size. But using Michael Jackson as an example are they true proof of Identity? This man has changed his face that much that he doesn’t resemble what he used to look like. So what’s to say that they are a reliable type of identification?
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