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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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Not a big book like Taschens. It's a short book, with black & white pictures in low res, many pages printed in just one side and very, very poor edited.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Very interesting and unusual book, my only criticism is that for a man who took so many thousands of photos over such a long period of time..why are so few of them in this book. This book should be ten times its size but nevertheless it is still the best book on Russian criminal tattoos that I have come across
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The photos alone make this book worth it. The comentary is tedious tho, while seemingly informative at first, it is repetitive and gets old fast.
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thought-provoking book
Mainly drawings and images with headers. Very interesting book on tattooing practice, social and power relations.
Published 21 months ago by beatless
Very interesting
This book is very interesting. You can see the image of the tatoo and the explanation about it's meaning. Recomend!
Published on 6 Feb 2010 by SOFIA B. Kr
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