Russian criminal tattoo encyclopaedia - Vol. 1
The photographs, drawings and texts which make up the Encyclopedia are part of a collection of 3,600 tattoos compiled over 33 years in St...
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The photographs, drawings and texts which make up the Encyclopedia are part of a collection of 3,600 tattoos compiled over 33 years in St Petersburg's notorious Kresty prison by one of the prison guards, Danzig Baldayev. The tattoos were his passport into a secret world where he became something of an ethnographer, recording the secrets of a closed society.The tattoos are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and sometimes simply strange, reflecting the lives and mores of the convicts. There are skulls with swastikas, naked women, a smiling Al Capone, assorted demons, medieval knights in armor, daggers and blood, benign images of Christ, mosques and minarets, sweet-faced mothers and babies, tanks and a horned Lenin.Once the criminal language and tattoos were the codes of a restricted world, but the language has filtered into society : the tattoos remain a secret.
Autor@: Baldayev, Danzig
ISBN: 978-0-9558620-7-6
Encuadernación: TD - Tapa dura
Idioma: Inglés
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