T.J. Nevin's Tasmanian prisoner mugshots 1870s

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ABC TV (Aust) news report by Siobhan Heanue, 2 April 2011. NB: this report contains unfactual and erroneous statements by both the journalist and interviewee.

For AUTHENTIC and ACCURATE research see:
http://thomasnevin.wordpress.com
http://tasmanianphotographer.blogspot.com
http://prisonerpics.blogspot.com

The interviewee Edwin Barnard in this ABC news report poses here as an expert on these Tasmanian convicts photographs taken and produced by commercial and police photographer Thomas J. NEVIN in the 1870s.

Langley and Dogherty are two prisoners mentioned in this excerpt from an ABC TV (Aust) news report delivered by Siobhan Heanue, 2 April 2011.Langley's and Dogherty's photos are just two of the hundreds of Tasmanian prisoner photographs taken by Nevin which survive in public collections. How Barnard can assert that Denis Dogherty never saw his own mugshot is just another example of his shallow modus operandi in presenting himself as an expert. Dogherty would have seen his own mugshot on prison and police records called up at every arraignement.

Barnard claims to be the "author" of the recent publication featuring Nevin's prisoner mugshots titled "EXILED" sponsored by the National Library of Australia, but the facts remain and are widely known that Barnard liberally appropriated materials just two years ago from the weblogs about Thomas J. NEVIN. The weblogs have presented accurate research about Nevin's police commission online since 2005 by Nevin descendants - yet Barnard used the research without due contact or courtesy in any form, not even an email. Earlier in the interview Barnard claims he "discovered" and "unearthed" these mugshots in the face of their public visibility since 1977 when they were exhibited at the QVMAG, and constant online visibility at the Archives Office Tasmania and the NLA since the early 1990s.

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