![]() ![]() From our present-day perspective, these visual images help us to see our ‘reflection’, and acknowledge the truth of our history and its legacies. They map colonial ‘blind spots’ by demonstrating the ways that these emotions were politicized to legitimate colonial interests, for example by directing sympathy towards white colonists, or seeking to evoke compassion for Aboriginal people. Images also return the modern viewer to the emotional and moral intensity of 1830s and 1840s frontier violence in south-eastern Australia. The Gaol: The Story of Newgate - Londons Most Notorious Prison by Kelly Grovier The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America. Built in the 12th century and demolished in 1904, the prison was extended and rebuilt many times, and remained in use for over 700 years, from 1188 to 1902. ![]() By contrast, images evoke empathy, creating social relationships across the British empire that defined identities and aligned viewers with specific communities. A thoroughly readable, albeit necessarily short, history of Newgate Gaol, which was - as the title suggests - the most notorious of all Londons prisons. Newgate Prison was a prison at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey Street just inside the City of London, England, originally at the site of Newgate, a gate in the Roman London Wall. The ‘history wars’ of the turn of the millennium have been accused of focusing on disciplinary protocols with the effect of obscuring the moral implications of colonial invasion and dispossession. ![]() Visual representations of colonial violence constitute an overlooked source of evidence that although shaped by contemporary visual and cultural conventions allow us to engage with this troubling history in significant ways. ![]()
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