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    • Abstract:
      Reports on the `Police Pictures' exhibition in San Francisco, California, moving to New York University's Grey Art Gallery in New York City on May 19, 1998. The shifting line between documentation and art; The work of Weegee, specifically, in New York City of the 1930s and 1940s; 19th-century invention of the mug shot by Alphonse Bertillon; Bertillon's systematic photographing of crime scenes; Gangster chic and the glamorization of criminals; Other photographs in the exhibit.