Doyle Peter with Caleb Williams (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Very good to near fine condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent. The 2nd edition includes an updated foreword and table of contents. This book was first published in association with the exhibition City of Shadows held at the Justice and Police Museum in 2005/2006. In the 1980s, the NSW Historic Houses Trust salvaged a collection of forensic crime photography, over four tonnes of photographic material, including glass plate negatives. There were no detective notes or investigation files to give context to the images. Peter Doyle, curator, conducted extensive research into the photographs, allowing the Trust to present an exhibition.

Reprint. Quarto hardcover, illustrated boards and endpapers; 239pp., monochrome illustrations. Minor wear; signed in ink by Peter Doyle. No dustwrapper as issued. Near fine. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. In the late 1980s, a vast collection of forensic crime photography, created by the New South Wales Police between 1912 and 1960, was rescued by the Historic Houses Trust from a flooded warehouse. This book draws on Peter Doyle's extensive research into these fascinating and often eerily beautiful images of everyday misadventure in Sydney between 1912 and 1948. Reproduced here to stunning effect, the reader is struck by the power of the photographs to transcend their provenance in police investigation and crime scene recording, to offer breathtaking historical revelation, and to come alive in their own right.