Driver’s License Photo as Art
Art is usually hung on walls, but the art of Fredrik Saker is now displayed on his driver's license, because he submitted a painted self-portrait of himself to the Swedish Transport Board for them to use as his license photo. And because it's a good likeness of him, the officials at the Transport Board accepted it. The self-portrait and his license are below. Saker has titled the portrait "This is not me." The BBC News suggests that Saker's work recalls "the art of the 16th Century miniaturists like Nicholas Hilliard" as well as "the Norwegian-born artist, Kjartan Slettemark, who made a career through questions of identity and travelled round Europe in the 1970s on a passport in which his head and beard had been superimposed on a photograph of the US president, Richard Nixon."
Saker couldn't have done this in the U.S. because the state Department of Motor Vehicles don't let you submit your own photo. (At least, they don't in California, which is the one I'm familiar with.) Though it might work for a passport application.
Saker couldn't have done this in the U.S. because the state Department of Motor Vehicles don't let you submit your own photo. (At least, they don't in California, which is the one I'm familiar with.) Though it might work for a passport application.
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Here in Greece we had to submit a photo that HAD NOT BEEN TOUCHED by human hands because they were going to scan it and didn't want finger prints. 3rd world country!
The "F" state also takes a digital photo at the DMV and it and your digitally rendered signature are incorporated into theAmerican ID card driver's license.
The "F" state also takes a digital photo at the DMV and it and your digitally rendered signature are incorporated into the
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/16/12 at 10:21 AM
Georgia does the same thing with the digital photo and signature for the DL. This time around, they made me take my glasses off, even though I wear them all the time, and my license is endorsed with a requirement for corrective lenses.
Posted by TheCannyScot in Atlanta, GA on 12/16/12 at 12:03 PM
The "no glasses", "no makeup" and "ears visible" restrictions are for facial recognition programs. These guide lines are also for passports now. In short..... It helps Big Brother keep track of you.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 12/16/12 at 12:25 PM
I got my first drevers licence just for walking into the police station and asking for it. Today I would have to move to Florida to get one.
Posted by Guy E. on 12/16/12 at 12:39 PM
Danger is, quite literally, his middle name.
Posted by Kirk Schobert on 12/16/12 at 11:10 PM
Compare this with the driver's license picture of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/The_Scream.jpg
Posted by tadchem on 12/17/12 at 02:00 PM
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Category: Art | Face and Facial Expressions