#23351 - 03/17/01 10:32 PM
Re: mug shots
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journeyman
Registered: 02/20/01
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Loc: Springfield, MA, USA
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I have yet to encounter a formal term which is the equivalent of "mug shot." Does anyone know one? I struggle to avoid slang terms in my formal writing, and am often wishing for a pithy substitute for "mug shot."
Profile, likeness, study (as in drawing), snap (as in film).... Any of those help?
Ali
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#23352 - 03/18/01 12:21 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 01/18/01
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Dear Seian: It is surprising that while the term "profile" is commonly used for a side view of the face, that there is not a similar term for the face viewed from the front. I have seen the phrase "full front view" but not a single word. Maybe tsuwm knows one.
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#23353 - 03/18/01 02:03 PM
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#23354 - 03/18/01 02:35 PM
Re: mug shots
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journeyman
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Loc: Springfield, MA, USA
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I have seen the phrase "full front view" but not a single word.
It is strange. The closest we seemed to get to a single word in art school was "frontal". I would be surprised if there wasn't a term for it somewhere in history, but I suppose it's fallen out of use, or the meaning has changed. My best guess for a word thats meaning migrated away might be "portrait". Can't be sure without the OED or some other extensive art source.
Ali
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#23355 - 03/18/01 09:45 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear Seian: In computerese,"portrait" means longest side vertical, as contrasted with "landscape" meaning longest side horizontal.
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#23356 - 03/19/01 03:49 AM
Re: mug shots
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/09/00
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Loc: Jakarta
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[quote]beer mugs of the late 18th century were often shaped like human heads,[//quote]
... known as toby jugs. My father used to have one.
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#23357 - 03/19/01 12:41 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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From way back I remember Tobermory. Those mugs were made by slipcasting, and the inside was very difficult to keep clean. Best left on knick-knack shelf for decoration.
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#23358 - 03/20/01 06:43 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/09/00
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Wasn't Tobermory a Womble rather than a jug?
Bingley
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#23359 - 03/20/01 07:38 AM
Re: mug shots
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journeyman
Registered: 03/02/01
Posts: 76
Loc: New York City
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There are amazing mugs and jugs with faces hand made, I think, in the American southeastern states, late 19th early 20th century of stoneware. I'm not sure what they're called. The faces are incredibly goofy with with crooked teeth and exaggerated features. You would definitely not want to be compared with them!
Also, the book Prisoners, by Arne Svenson, contains a collection of images made in the early 20th century by a California photographer of a town's criminals. Svenson calls them mugshots (one word) and does not have a word for frontal view.
Maybe someone should ask a cop!
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