RUSSIAN CRIMINAL TATTOOS AND PLAYING CARDS (OCTUBRE 2018)

This book reveals the importance of playing cards in Russian criminalculture. Prohibited by the prison authorities, the beautiful ha nd-madedecks are constructed from innocuous materials procured from theeveryday routine of prison life. During construction boththe cards andtheir designs are expertly manipulated so they can be read. This processis described here for the first time. Extensive diagrams show how thecards are made, while decks of actual prison cards are reproduced infacsimile.150 previously unpublished photographs from the...[Llegir més]