Yes yes yes to these evocative photos.one can only begin to imagine their stories.recently I was in Canberra (Australia) at the National Portrait Gallery.an exhibition on the Oz Police Force.a photo of a group of men in Sydney.they'd been captured.maybe from The Razor Gang (the weapon of choice at the time :-().the hats worn.with as ease chic style! Wow! Those are stunning! And as I'm a long time lurker, I want to tell you that I love your blog. That's why i'm really glad you've also posted some of this important history! (and, i'm sick today, so this made me feel a bit better!) And by the way, i especially like the second lady and the last gentlemen in your post.

I think the most important thing with those photographs is, that even if it was almost a hundred years ago, my granny for example have the same crazy pics with her friends and the same adorable and happy pics with her fiancés as i do, today. She was very beautiful and quite stylish, and luckily i have inherit some of her jewellery. My grandmother unfortunately just died, but she left a full paperbag with old, fantastic photograps! She was born 1908, so she had been trough a lot in her life. Oh! I love old photographs! Finally someone else who also can see the beaty with the 'old' way of photographing, the digital way can never make such magic in one picture. Is there anyway you'd be able to list all these books you've recommended in one of those add ons you've put in? My apologizes if you already have.Īgreed, these images are evocative, fantastic, and even somewhat prying! These books you post about seem to be really interesting, but unfortunatly I haven't kept track of any of them. Comments on 'City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948'

City of Shadows by Peter Doyle