Identikits
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Author: Michele Metail
Translator: Philip Terry
Publisher: Black Square Editions (2021)
Philip Terry translates Michele Metail’s collection of assemblage descriptions of people using ready-made language, which are referred to as “Portrait Robot,” a reference to an invention in 1950 in France of the Identifit or Photofit Picture used by police and the judiciary to reconstitute a broad outline of a suspect’s face.