Portraits of Australian Criminals in the 1920s

[Paul Ewins]

Brian, Eugenie Falleni is a woman, not a man, a fact that surprised her second wife when Falleni was arrested. She was arrested for the murder of her first wife, which apparently occurred after discovering her "husband" had a secret.

[Darin Boville]

These are really great. Thanks.

--Darin

[NicolasArg]

Thanks for the link Frank. Could someone please describe briefly how they used to light these portraits? I'd really like to try it.

[Ross Chambers]

This is a prime example of the Australian cultural cringe, theese are hosted in france. They are an odd lot in Australia. They should be very proud of theese.

Indeed, that's why they were presented in a carefully restored and curated show at the Justice and Police Museum in Sydney from November 2005 to November 2006. A book of the show (ISBN 1 876991 20 8) was published by the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales at the time, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys vernacular photography. Many of these were banged off in the yard at the back of the station by the first available walloper.

RE Odd Australians: I had occasion to use TVNZ footage of the Bastion Point demo which was a pivotal moment in New Zealand history. It was spliced with some crap sticky tape with no archival qualities and the lab could hardly get it through the printer. No attempt had been made to preserve this material. Now THAT'S odd (and cringeworthy)

[Ross Chambers]

Kind of a redundant use of two words isn't it?

Yeah thanks Frank. To be charitable I guess you forgot the smiley.

[mdm]

Indeed, that's why they were presented in a carefully restored and curated show at the Justice and Police Museum in Sydney from November 2005 to November 2006. A book of the show (ISBN 1 876991 20 8) was published by the Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales at the time, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys vernacular photography. Many of these were banged off in the yard at the back of the station by the first available walloper.

RE Odd Australians: I had occasion to use TVNZ footage of the Bastion Point demo which was a pivotal moment in New Zealand history. It was spliced with some crap sticky tape with no archival qualities and the lab could hardly get it through the printer. No attempt had been made to preserve this material. Now THAT'S odd (and cringeworthy)

Settle down. I read those names very carefully, before looking. No surprises, thankfully.

[Lachlan 717]

This is a prime example of the Australian cultural cringe, theese are hosted in france. They are an odd lot in Australia. They should be very proud of theese.

You root sheep and you have the temerity to call us odd?

But, on a lighter note, I would doubt that there is any cultural cringe here. We have many, many urban heroes of a very shady nature (Ned Kelly and Mark "Chopper" Read to name but 2), so nothing embarrassing there.

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...

[Brian C. Miller]

Brian, Eugenie Falleni is a woman, not a man, a fact that surprised her second wife when Falleni was arrested. She was arrested for the murder of her first wife, which apparently occurred after discovering her "husband" had a secret.

Eugenia Falleni, aka Harry Crawford

'Crawford's' astonished second wife, when finally convinced of Falleni's true gender remarked, "I always wondered why he was so painfully shy ..."

Wow! I had heard of a case like this in the US, but it wasn't criminal. Hillarious!

[Frank Petronio]

Yeah thanks Frank. To be charitable I guess you forgot the smiley.

Took you guys long enough to catch that.

[EdWorkman]

Geez Frank- Anyone who has watched "The Princess Bride" as many times as our family has-some of my kids can repeat all the dialog- others now run screaming from the room-knows that , and can clearly not choose... to mention it.
smiley face here :>)