Courtesy Neil Kaplanīefore that, they listed distinguishing features, such as the shape of your chin or the color of your eyes. This American travel document from 1841 describes its bearer as having a straight nose, fair complexion, and oval chin. This now-quotidian form of identification was a totally revolutionary, radical idea-so much so that it wasn’t until decades after their inception that photographs became standard practice on passports. Each ticket had a number, the name of the holder, and a stamped photograph. In the wake of admission problems with similarly colossal exhibitions in London and Paris, Philadelphia introduced “the photographic ticket” for exhibitors and other free-pass holders. Photo-based identification had a somewhat unusual start, at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. So they did.” One of the earliest passport photos, from 1914, appears to have been added later as requirements were updated.
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“They made no rules on how to pose for a picture. “Its adoption seems to have caught the authorities by surprise,” he told the BBC. Though passport photos have been in place in some countries since 1914, most initially had no regulations at all, says Martin Lloyd, author of The Passport: The History of Man’s Most Travelled Document. Courtesy Tom Topolīut it wasn’t always this way.
This 1921 German passport shows a young woman with her guitar. A grim-faced expression, required in the United Kingdom since 2004, helps facial-scanning software make matches. They differ a little from country to country, however: New Zealand’s is still black and white, while Mexico, India, and the United States are three of the only countries that use a square aspect ratio. These regulations, among others, rule the American passport photo.
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