Least Wanted - Neatorama

Photo: Least Wanted [Flickr]

We're always looking out for number one - or criminally speaking, those on the most wanted list. But not Mark "Least Wanted" Michaelson. He has spent years collecting tens of thousands of mugshots of "punks, sneaks, mooks and miscreants. Hookers, stooges, grifters and goons" going back to the 1870s. In other words, the least wanted.

Link [Flickr Photoset] | Least Wanted on Amazon - via Wooster Collective (with a video clip of a walk through of an art exhibition called JUSTICE, which included art by Least Wanted)

I wonder if he's got mugshots of Henry Earl ...

the link to the flickr photoset isnt there

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well, the second one isnt

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Is that Harry Dean Stanton on teh right?

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The guy on the right must be Harry Dean Stanton's dad.

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But...what the...um, isn't that Harry Dean Stanton on the right?

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some of those criminals look just downright wacky

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Not only is the one on the right Harry Dean Stanton, the one on the left looks like an actor whose name I can't place right now.

When I saw this pic on the page I assumed it was a clever promo for a new film!

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It's missing from the source code, too. Often when a link's missing it's in the source in a mangled form, but not this time.

Anyway - try this...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leastwanted/

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I was thinking John Lovitz (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IrFTPjDx5Do/SV2DSmOJN4I/AAAAAAAAFWI/LdKBKYxTmAM/s400/cplovitzj-crop.jpg) on the left and Harry Dean Stanton on the right when I first saw the pictures.

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wow, i never got so many hits in one day.
thanks neatorama!

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So many stories behind all those photos.

Also - it reminds you how powerful black and white photography is.

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