Fuel Publishing | ISBN:0955006120 | File Type: PDF, 399 pages | File size: 57.Mb | Sep. 30th, 2011
Body Art Tattooing: Danzig Baldaev s father was an academic an ethnologist who found himself imprisoned under Soviet re as an enemy of the people In fact much of Baldaev s family moved through the Soviet prison system while he became a guard At his father s suggestion he used his access to document and study that tattoos that were pervasive among the try criminal portion of the prison popation the vory v zakonye or legitimate thieves a semi professional who keep their own brutal laws During his 30 years supervising inmates in St etersburg s notorious Kresty rison Baldaev recorded over 3 000 of their tattoos and parsed their meaning the nihilistic creativity of a closed society in the drawings and text that made the first volume of The Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia a bestseller This essential second volume which collects all new previously unseen photographs and drawings goes to the extremes of his incredible collection Sergel Vasilev s photographs authenticate the images Baldaev s drawings make sense of them and through them both we glimpse an extraordinary world where the criminal s position history and even sexual preference are displayed indelibly on his body and that marked body serves as a passport into the underworld
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