"Between 1910 and 1930, a series of 2500 โspecial photographsโ were taken by the New South Wales Police Department.
These โspecial photographsโ were mostly taken in the cells at the Central Police Station in Sydney and are of men and women recently plucked from the street, often still animated by the dramas surrounding their โapprehensionโ.
Compared with the subjects of prison mug shots, the subjects of the special photographs seem to have been allowed โ perhaps invited โ to position and compose themselves for the camera as they liked."
https://www.artfido.com/40-candid-mugshots-of-dapper-criminals-from-the-1920s/
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