Russian Criminal Tattoo- Bodies as Text

LONDON.- Michael Hoppen Gallery presents Russian Criminal Tattoo- Bodies as Text Sergei Vasiliev. Between 1948 to 2005, 3,000 drawings were compiled by prison warden and ethnographer Danzig Baldaev of the tattoos of the inmates. Supported by the KGB, who recognised the usefulness of such a document, these drawings were supplemented by photographs by Sergei Vasiliev, a fellow warden.
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