We have always been fascinated by the outlaw and theese photos from a past exhibition at the
Historical Houses Trust in Australia doesn't help a lot. These guys really show some attitude and are pretty sharply dressed too. The story behind the photos is quite intrigueing too. Browse through them and get some sartorial inspiration. There's even a book.
These pictures are from a series of around 2500 "special photographs" taken by New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930. These "special photographs" were mostly taken in the cells at the Central Police Station, Sydney and are, as curator Peter Doyle explains, of "men and women recently plucked from the street, often still animated by the dramas surrounding their apprehension". Doyle suggests that, compared with the subjects of prison mug shots, "the subjects of the Special Photographs seem to have been allowed - perhaps invited - to position and compose themselves for the camera as they liked. Their photographic identity thus seems constructed out of a potent alchemy of inborn disposition, personal history, learned habits and idiosyncrasies, chosen personal style (haircut, clothing, accessories) and physical characteristics."
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| Guiseppe Fiori, alias Permontto, 5 August 1924 |
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| 'Ah Num' and 'Ah Tom', ca 1930 |
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| Gilbert Burleigh and Joseph Delaney, 27 August 1920 |
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| Sydney Skukerman, or Skukarman, 25 September 1924 |
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| John Walter Ford and Oswald Clive Nash, June 1921 |
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| Hampton Hirscham, Cornellius Joseph Keevil, William Thomas O'Brien and James O'Brien, 20 July 1921 |
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| Frederick Edward Davies, 14 July 1921 |
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| William Stanley Moore, 1 May 1925 |
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| William Cahill, 30 July 1923 |
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