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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III

Danzig BaldaevAUD $45.00

The third volume in the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series.

400 pages
Hardcover
Size: 208 mm x 128 mm
ISBN: 9780955006197

Only 1 In Stock

Description

This final volume of previously unpublished drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopadia trilogy. Danzig Baldaev’s unparalleled ethnographic achievement, documenting over 3,000 tattoo drawings, was made during a lifetime working as a prison guard. The motifs depicted represent the uncensored lives of the criminal classes, ranging from violence and pornography to politics and alcohol. A medieval knight is surrounded by the severed heads of his enemies, a naked woman simultaneously services a man and two dwarfs, a crying President Gorbachev grips a human bone between sabre-like fangs, a group of angels drinks vodka with God on a cloud – the meanings of these arresting images are explained to the uninitiated eye. Accompanied by graphic photographs showing the grim reality of the Russian prison system and some of the alarming characters that inhabit it, the illustrated criminals of Russia tell the tale of their closed society.

Published January 2009 by FUEL Design & Publishing

Additional information

Weight 473 g
Dimensions 207 × 128 × 27 mm
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