D s baldaev (7 résultats)

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 400 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Prisoners Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg Social life and customs. Tattooing Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg ; Pictorial works. Prisoners Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg Social life and customs ; Pictorial works. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 400 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Prisoners Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg Social life and customs. Tattooing Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg ; Pictorial works. Prisoners Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg Social life and customs ; Pictorial works. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Etat : VG+. First Edition. 4to, 158pp. Printed boards. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in Russian. Mind boggling inventory of tattoo designs from Baldev, with lots of notes and details. Obviously due to the subject one of the most obscene books on tattoos ever, leaves one with more questions than answers.…

Etat : Good. Original pictorial boards, numerous (full page) illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, text in Russian, 4to.

Hardcover. Etat : gut. 2006. Tattoos of prisoners: copied and collected by veteran of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs D.S. Baldaev from 1948 to 2000: from the author's personal collection (Russian edition) In deutscher Sprache. pages.

First edition. 12mo. Three volumes. Vol. 1. 395 pp. / Vol. 2. 399 pp. / Vol. 3. 397 pp. / Photographic illustrations. (125268). The photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than 3,000 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by a prison attendant named 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 armor, 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. With a foreword by Danzig Baldaev, and an introduction by Alexei Plutser-Sarno, exploring the symbolism of the Russian criminal tattoo.…

hardcover. Etat : As New. [Russian Criminal Tattoo Art] Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 166 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm. Inscribed by author? "Some common slang words and expressions used in the criminal world": pages [157]-166.