Public eye, private eye: Sydney police mug shots, 1912-1930

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    283 Downloads (Pure)

    Abstract

    Peter Doyle’s work considers images from the NSW police collection limiting the discussion to offender portraits or ‘mug shots’ produced mostly in the 1920s. He finds in these images anomalous qualities of ‘presence’ and apparent agency in the subjects which go against established police photographic procedure of the day, and which more broadly challenge simplistic totalizing formulations of the photographic gaze as purely and inevitably authoritarian.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalScan: journal of media arts culture
    Volume2
    Issue number3
    Publication statusPublished - 2005

    Bibliographical note

    Publisher version archived with the permission of the Editor, Scan, Department of Media, Macquarie University, NSW, Australia. This copy is available for individual, non-commercial use. Permission to reprint/republish this version for other uses must be obtained from the publisher.

    Fingerprint

    Dive into the research topics of 'Public eye, private eye: Sydney police mug shots, 1912-1930'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

    Cite this