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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II
Working as a prison guard in St Petersburgs notorious Kresty Prison, the author diligently recorded over 3,000 criminal tattoos, documenting their meanings within this closed society. This title explores the extremes of this collection.
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A unique social document recording a now disappearing sub-culture. The criminals inhabit as desperate a nether world as you are likely to come across. A hypnotic aspect of art and words. - Index
This second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia is an essential companion to the critically acclaimed first volume. It features previously unpublished drawings and photographs from the extraordinary archives of Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev.
During his lifetime as a guard in St Petersburg's notorious Kresty Prison, Baldaev diligently recorded over 3,000 criminals' tattoos and their coded meanings. His drawings form a unique gallery; a passport into a hidden world of shovel-faced politicians, fornicating devils, messages tangled in barbed wire. Tattoos on hands, feet, legs, torsos, foreheads, eyelids, buttocks, and genitals all take their place in this fascinating document of a rapidly disappearing criminal society, where history, status, and even sexual preference are indelibly etched on the body.
Introduction by Anne Applebaum, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.
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ISBN: 9780955006128
Publisher: FUEL Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 03 July 2006
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: FUEL Publishing
Illustration: Illustrated in black and white throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 120.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 400
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