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Title: Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Postcards
Condition: New
Author: Danzig Baldaev, Sergei Vasiliev, FUEL
Format: Postcards
Type: Postcards
EAN: 9780956896261
ISBN: 9780956896261
Publisher: FUEL Publishing
Release Date: 16/09/2013
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 155mm
Item Length: 105mm
Item Weight: 540g
Type: Other
Release Year: 2013
Description: This beautifully produced boxed set of 53 postcards contains stunning images from the best-selling Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series of books. These hugely popular and influential books document the Russian criminal tattoo, revealing their hidden meanings. The motifs depicted represent the uncensored lives of the criminal classes; their tattoos were a secret tribal language, a method of showing status within the prison system. By turn they are extraordinary, artful, explicit or just strange, reflecting the lives and traditions of this previously hidden world. The box features 25 original sheet drawings by Danzig Baldaev and 25 photographs by Sergei Vasiliev. Each has a detailed description of the meaning of each tattoo on the reverse. Also included is a postcard of each of the three book covers. The drawings printed on the postcards are facsimiles of Baldaev’s original sheets, reproduced directly from the Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive.

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