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Russian prison tattoos

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Exhibition: 'Tattoo' at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg http://artblart.com/2015/03/26/exhibition-tattoo-at-museum-fur-kunst-und-gewerbe-hamburg/ Photo: Arkady Bronnikov (*1926) 'Photographs of Russian convicts' 1960-1980

Exhibition: 'Tattoo' at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg http://artblart.com/2015/03/26/exhibition-tattoo-at-museum-fur-kunst-und-gewerbe-hamburg/ Photo: Arkady Bronnikov (*1926) 'Photographs of Russian convicts' 1960-1980

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From: 30 October to 28 November 2010 Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive 4 Wilkes Street, London E1 6QF Thursday to Sunday, 11am to 6pm. fuel-design.com/ For more exhibitions and events, see the Eye events page: blog.eyemagazine.com/?page_id=158

Juxtapoz Magazine - Best of 2014: The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive

This unique archive documents Russian criminals' tattoos and their coded meanings. Included in the collection are more than three thousand tattoo draw...

The dagger through the neck shows that the prisoner committed murder while in prison, and that he is available to 'hire' for further murders. The bells on the feet indicate that he served his time in full ('to the bell'), the manacles on the ankles mean that the sentences were over five years. 'Ring' tattoos on the fingers show the status of the criminal when the rest of his body is covered. The 'thieves' stars' on the knees carry the symbolic meaning ‘I will not kneel before the police'.

In these images the nameless bodies of criminals act as both a text and mirror, reflecting and preserving the ever-changing folklore of the Russian...

The medals tattooed on the chest are the Hero of Soviet Labour and Hero of the Soviet Union

These photographs of prisoners’ tattoos were collected by Arkady Bronnikov from the mid-1960s­ to mid-1980s. An expert in criminalistics, he visited correctional institutions across the Soviet Union to collect photos to help to understand the tattoos’ language, and to identify and catch criminals.

Decoding Russian Prison Tattoos | The New Yorker

Throughout the Communist era, convicts in the Soviet prison system used tattoos to signal their social standing, tastes, and interests to fellow criminals.