Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I Iron-On Letters Bring a bit of the

Bring a bit of the absurd to your hairstyles to match that of the world around you

If you missed out this time

peeking at some fishy friends below

it's alternately enlightening

Together they comprise both a guidebook and a love letter to a city that never sleeps

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I Iron-On Letters Bring a bit of theThe photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than 3,000 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