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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I

Hardback

Main Details

Title Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I
Authors and Contributors      By (author) FUEL
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 120
Category/GenreBody art and tattooing
ISBN/Barcode 9780955862076
ClassificationsDewey:391.650869270947
Audience
General
Illustrations Illustrated in black and white throughout

Publishing Details

Publisher FUEL Publishing
Imprint FUEL Publishing
Publication Date 7 September 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than 3000 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldaev. Tattoos were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes just strange, reflecting as they do the lives and traditions of Russian convicts. Skulls, swastikas, harems of naked women, a smiling Al Capone, medieval knights in armour, daggers sheathed in blood, benign images of Christ, sweet-faced mothers and their babies, armies of tanks, and a horned Lenin - these are the signs by which the people of this hidden world mark and identify themselves.