australian criminals from the 20's photographs

disanski

I ran in to those this morning- some fantastic characters

http://www.laboiteverte.fr/portraits-de-criminels-australiens-dans-les-annees-1920/

JohnnyRaptor

amazing.... ppl looked so different back then

glynnsmith

The startings of 3D.SK! :P

Bigjohn

Awesome. Thanks for sharing

adam

2 notes:

-A. Cooke: Pretty
-Sometimes they look dead/like zombies. Thats because the shutter speed was so slow that if they blinked it'd capture both eye open and eye shut in the photograph.



And of course, obligatory: www.shorpy.com

Bigjohn

adam wrote: »

2 notes:And of course, obligatory: www.shorpy.com

That's neat. I didn't know about that site.

You know, it would be cool if sites like that, and even 3d.sk, could be linked to from the PC wiki. There's already a Reference category.

ebagg

WTF Anthony Hopkins!?!

PS: Awesome gallery!!!

Fomori

Some interesting faces. Nice resource. Cheers!

Arcanox

Incredible how they pull their pants up so high. How on earth do they make them stay up like that? They must have suspenders as strong as bungee jumping cords.

Mark Dygert

Cool stuff thanks for sharing!

also... be sure to stick it in the Reference thread so it won't get buried and forgotten.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34320

Arcanox wrote: »

Incredible how they pull their pants up so high. How on earth do they make them stay up like that? They must have suspenders as strong as bungee jumping cords.

They would probably say the same thing about pants today...

disanski

Added to the reference thread. I am glad you guys find them interesting I was actually not posting it as a reference but now that you mentioned it yeaa there is so much material there.

PogoP

adam wrote: »

2 notes:

-A. Cooke: Pretty
-Sometimes they look dead/like zombies. Thats because the shutter speed was so slow that if they blinked it'd capture both eye open and eye shut in the photograph.



And of course, obligatory: www.shorpy.com

A. Smith is much nicer.

Also:



It's Stephen Graham from Snatch/This Is England, combined with Dexter Fletcher (Soap from Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels)!

Jeremy Tabor

haha, Ebagg! I thought the same thing! I had already copied the link to post, but then I saw your comment. I also saw a little russell crowe in there at first glance.

But yea. Thanks OP, this is awesome.

Edit:

and wtf did this lady do?

Jeremy Tabor

and henry gibson?

Jeremy Wright

Some of those dudes look like tough motherfuckers. More than a few of them are downright scary.

Fay Watson for the Roaring Win.

ScoobyDoofus

This guy looks awesome. I WILL sculpt him at some stage.

achmedthesnake

Hey! stop stealn dem pictuuurs of ma relatives heyuk..

I think we had an exhibition over in auz showing these - it depicted the photos also with a little bit of the story behind the faces - like one of the females was supposedly a brothel madame/owner

Stinger88

Nice pics. WTF is going on here though?

Dan!

@scoobydoofus- I said the same thing when I saw that pic- I'm pretty sure that's what an olde timey Marv from sin city would look like. in any case dude looks like he's been in quite a few scraps in his day.

HonkyPunch

Gotta love looking into the past like this;
People looked so much different. Women had more real, earthly beauty rather than the artificial beauty that prevails in modern times, and men looked sharp/gruff. You can feel the roughness of their skin, almost.

Muzzoid

Wicked!

Looks like you can get it in book form. Me want.

[ame]http://www.amazon.com/City-Shadows-Sydney-Photographs-1912-1948/dp/1876991208[/ame]

Mezz

Thanks for posting this!! I love seeing old photos like this!

Saved this one for my personal reference. Some of them looked real shady, but others I looked at them and thought... they seem like a nice bunch of ladies ready to go out for a stroll. What're they in for?! lol

Michael Knubben

Thought I'd add this link, since it's related: http://csac.buffalo.edu/mirrors/mirrorsimages.html

There's some absolutely amazing (but haunting) reference in both links!

StefanH

damn so much win in this thread. This is some really amazing reference in all those links. Would like to model at least a dozen of them

Andreas

disanski wrote: »

australian criminals from the 20's

So all australians.

selentic

I absolutely adore the way these people dressed. Thanks for posting.