Encyclopédie russe du tatouage criminel Volume 1

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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.

• Cover Type Hardcover
• Year of publication 2009
• Pages 400 pages
• Language English
• Dimensions width 131 mm, height 210 mm, thickness 27 mm
• Weight 487g
• Illustrated illustrations in black and white