Re: Portraits of Australian Criminals in the 1920s
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Lachlan 617
More likely that someone stole these, headed back to the Ol' Dart and sold them.
If we got them back, there'd probably be a Public Holiday gazetted...
For heaven's sake; from the book intro (a short quote for discussion purposes, allowed in the copyright regime--I wonder about the copyright of the French site??)
"In the late 1980s a vast collection of forensic crime photography, created by the New South Wales Police between 1912 and 1960, was rescued by the Historic Houses Trust from a flooded warehouse. (...)
"We salvaged about four tonnes of photographic material, including many glass plate negatives still in their original Kodak boxes, and transferred them to cavernous loft of the museum. (...)
"Fifteen years later, after a great deal of study, the Trust has published this selection of photographs from its extraordinary archive to coincide with the 'City of Shadows' exhibition."
The book is Copyright 2005.
Did the French seek permission? Who are the crims?
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my great great grandfather was sent as a convict to australia from england for forging bank notes,
apparently he was very good at that part. i am trying to forge my own Art for the
same purpose, but as i am already here i needn't worry!:D
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[QUOTE=Frank Petronio;680744]Kind of a redundant use of two words isn't it?
if adam and eve wernt criminals...
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It is decades since any Australian raised their hackles at any suggestion of "transportation" ancestors. It has become a very big plus in the family tree - pointing to early arrival. I could say something similar about the various early Colonists in what became New England, but intepretation of the history and motivation of early colonist settlements is a sensitive area. No politics here!!
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Basing the culture on being mostly criminals, it probably made for a more fair, polite, and resourceful society. Pirate ships were the first employee owned businesses... they voted on everything quite fairly. Except for conscription ;-)
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The Peter Lik nation. All saturated colours and no substance.
Re: Portraits of Australian Criminals in the 1920s
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mdm
The Peter Lik nation.
Better than being the Dave Dobbyn Nation.
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will you two kiss and make up, or this squabbling will infect every thread you are both on which is not the point!
it is also pointless to compare as both have there points. NZ has some insanely beautiful nature condensed into a tiny island, Maoris can eat most Aussies for breakfast, a good islander party where every one sings is way better that the boring individualistic parties of australia, bla bla bla the list goes on
australia is a boring country town where every thing looks the same and is nothing but a post modern abortion of global politics gone wrong, it is a racist immature country, where footy beer and commodores rule over art music and humanity. all our artists move over seas as we dont have the population/intelligence to back them. we hate any one who is talented as that makes the group look bad aka 'tall poppy syndrome' and any one who is different gets beaten up. our country has been sold to foreigners who take profits out, and we are left only with a red neck wonderland.
the above whilst true is an exercise in bias.
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Re: Portraits of Australian Criminals in the 1920s
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cosmicexplosion
i cant be bothered writing any mor...
Truer words were never, uh... :confused: