mandonbossi
29-Jun-2011, 01:56
Hi, I just received this awesome book "City of Shadows - Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948" and was just wondering if anyone had seen it and had an idea of what process might have been used at the time to achieve it? The portrait images are the ones that really interest me and I like that there seems to be an extremely shallow D.O.F used..
Here is a link to a few of the images..
http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/2007/02/city-of-shadows-sydney-police.html
In searching for images I also came across this site which as used current Australian actors to sort of replicate the "look" I guess..
http://www.theloop.com.au/lukestambouliah/project/15399/photography/persons-of-interest
So I would be completely guessing but it looks like it is shot with a 5x7 format on film? Or would it be some other alternative process? In a lot of the images either one or more people are slightly blurred (motion blur) which suggest either really slow film or another slow process.. Any ideas? Where early forms of black and white film much slower that what we have today?
I also have his other book called "Crooks Like Us" and found this link to it
http://www.reportageonline.com/2010/07/whats-in-a-mugshot/
in it, they state "Crooks Like Us is a collection of glass negatives featuring mugshots taken of criminals in Inner city Sydney in the 1920s."
I also love how white, the whites in the eyes get, is this a common feature of such a glass negative?
Ok, thanks so much, look forward to hearing any thoughts anyone has..
Best Regards
Mandon
Here is a link to a few of the images..
http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/2007/02/city-of-shadows-sydney-police.html
In searching for images I also came across this site which as used current Australian actors to sort of replicate the "look" I guess..
http://www.theloop.com.au/lukestambouliah/project/15399/photography/persons-of-interest
So I would be completely guessing but it looks like it is shot with a 5x7 format on film? Or would it be some other alternative process? In a lot of the images either one or more people are slightly blurred (motion blur) which suggest either really slow film or another slow process.. Any ideas? Where early forms of black and white film much slower that what we have today?
I also have his other book called "Crooks Like Us" and found this link to it
http://www.reportageonline.com/2010/07/whats-in-a-mugshot/
in it, they state "Crooks Like Us is a collection of glass negatives featuring mugshots taken of criminals in Inner city Sydney in the 1920s."
I also love how white, the whites in the eyes get, is this a common feature of such a glass negative?
Ok, thanks so much, look forward to hearing any thoughts anyone has..
Best Regards
Mandon