| FUELLondon-based FUEL design group was founded in 1991 by Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell. The firm quickly became known for its bold, thought-provoking self-published magazine, its commercial work for other publishers, its short films, film titles and television commercials. In 2005, FUEL Publishing was born, and a series of influential and best-selling books (including the Russian Criminal Tattoo series) quickly followed. As Adrian Shaughnessy noted in a 2007 Design Observer review, "Murray and Sorrell's realization that they possessed the transferable skills and instincts to publish thought-provoking books with editorial depth has allowed them to create a publishing venture that offers a fresh take on visual culture."
Exclusive North American Trade Distribution: D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. Toll-free 1 800 338 2665 155 Sixth Avenue, 2nd Floor, NY, NY 10013 Tel: (212) 627-1999 | Fax: (212) 627-9484 EMAIL: orders@dapinc.com INFO: D.A.P. Sales Rep DirectoryTITLE INDEXA PROCESS REVEALED Edited by Andrew Waugh, Karl-Heinz Weiss, Matthew Wells. Text by Henrietta Thompson. ISBN: 9780955862069 | US $34.95 Active | In stock
ALIX LAMBERT: CRIME Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell, Ariana Speyer. ISBN: 9780955862021 | US $300.00 Active | Awaiting stock
BIBLIODYSSEY: AMAZING ARCHIVAL IMAGES FROM THE DUSTY CORNERS OF THE INTERNET! Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Dinos Chapman. Text by PK. ISBN: 9780955006166 | US $34.95 Active | In stock
CRIME Edited by Alix Lambert, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell, Ariana Speyer. ISBN: 9780955006180 | US $45.00 Active | In stock
DANZIG BALDAEV: DRAWINGS FROM THE GULAG Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. ISBN: 9780956356246 | US $32.95 Forthcoming | Awaiting stock
DRESSING FOR PLEASURE IN RUBBER, VINYL & LEATHER Edited by Jonny Trunk, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. ISBN: 9780956356239 | US $32.95 Forthcoming | Awaiting stock
FLEUR OLBY: PLANT PORTRAITS Designed and edited by Murray & Sorrell. ISBN: 9780955006104 | US $35.00 Active | In stock
HOME-MADE: CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN FOLK ARTIFACTS Edited by Vladmir Arkhipov. Foreword by Susan B. Glasser. ISBN: 9780955006135 | US $34.95 Active | Awaiting stock
IDEAS HAVE LEGS: IAN MCMILLAN VS. ANDY MARTIN Introduction by Mark Radcliffe. ISBN: 9780955006159 | US $25.00 Active | Not available
JAKE & DINOS CHAPMAN: BEDTIME TALES FOR SLEEPLESS NIGHTS Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. ISBN: 9780955862090 | US $34.95 Forthcoming | Awaiting stock
JAKE CHAPMAN: MEMOIRS OF MY WRITER’S BLOCK Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. ISBN: 9780956356208 | US $24.00 Active | In stock
JAKE CHAPMAN: MEMOIRS OF MY WRITER’S BLOCK ISBN: 9780956356215 | US $595.00 Forthcoming | Awaiting stock
JAKE CHAPMAN: THE MARRIAGE OF REASON & SQUALOR ISBN: 9780955862052 | US $595.00 Active | Awaiting stock
JAKE CHAPMAN: THE MARRIAGE OF REASON & SQUALOR ISBN: 9780955862007 | US $32.95 Active | In stock
JAKE CHAPMAN: THE MARRIAGE OF REASON & SQUALOR ISBN: 9780955862045 | US $100.00 Active | Awaiting stock
MATCH DAY: OFFICIAL FOOTBALL PROGRAMMES Edited by Paul Kelly and Bob Stanley. Introduction by Brian Glanville. ISBN: 9780955006142 | US $55.00 Active | In stock
NOTES FROM RUSSIA: HAND-MADE STREET NOTICES Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Alexei Plutser-Samo. ISBN: 9780955006173 | US $32.95 Active | In stock
RUSSIAN CRIMINAL TATTOO ENCYCLOPAEDIA LIMITED EDITION BOXED SET Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. ISBN: 9780955862038 | US $1,995.00 Forthcoming | Awaiting stock
RUSSIAN CRIMINAL TATTOO ENCYCLOPAEDIA VOLUME I Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Alexei Plutser-Sarno. Text by Danzig Baldaev. Photographs by Sergei Vasiliev. ISBN: 9780955862076 | US $32.95 Active | In stock
RUSSIAN CRIMINAL TATTOO ENCYCLOPAEDIA VOLUME III Introduction by Alexander Sidorov. ISBN: 9780955006197 | US $32.95 Active | In stock
RUSSIAN CRIMINAL TATTOO ENCYCLOPEDIA VOLUME II Introduction by Anne Applebaum. Foreword by Alexel Pluster-Sarno. Photographs by Sergey Vasiliev. Drawings by Danzig Baldaev. ISBN: 9780955006128 | US $25.00 Active | Awaiting stock
SPIRIT: GARDEN INSPIRATION Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell, Anna Benn, Huw Morgan. ISBN: 9780955862083 | US $45.00 Active | Awaiting stock
THE MUSIC LIBRARY Designed and edited by Murray & Sorrell and Jonny Trunk. Foreword by Jerry Dammers. ISBN: 9780955006111 | US $57.00 Out of print | Not available
| | | Danzig Baldaev: Drawings from the GulagEdited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell.
Drawings from the Gulag consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev (author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series), describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. Baldaev's father, a respected ethnographer, taught him techniques to record the tattoos of criminals in St. Petersburg's notorious Kresty prison, where Danzig worked as a guard. He was reported to the K.G.B. who unexpectedly offered support for his work, allowing him the opportunity to travel across the former U.S.S.R. Witnessing scenes of everyday life in the Gulag, he chronicled this previously closed world from both sides of the wire. With every vignette, Baldaev brings the characters he depicts to vivid life: from the lowest "zek" (inmate) to the most violent tattooed "vor" (thief), all the practices and inhabitants of the Gulag system are depicted here in incredible and often shocking detail. In documenting the attitude of the authorities to those imprisoned, and the transformation of these citizens into survivors or victims of the Gulag system, this graphic novel vividly depicts methods of torture and mass murder undertaken by the administration, as well as the atrocities committed by criminals upon their fellow inmates. Danzig Baldaev was born in 1925 in Ulan-Ude, Buryatiya, Russia. In 1948, after serving in the army in World War II, he was ordered by the N.K.V.D. to work as a warden in the infamous Leningrad prison, Kresty, where he started drawing the tattoos of criminals. His collection of drawings, which he made in different reformatory settlements for criminals all over the former U.S.S.R. over a period of more than 50 years, have been published by Fuel in three volumes, in the bestselling Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series. |  | U.S. LIST PRICE: U.S. $32.95 CANADIAN PRICE: CAN $40 ISBN: 9780956356246 FORMAT: Hbk, 6.5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 30 b&w. PUBLISHER: FUEL Publishing DISTRIBUTION: | RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLICATION DATE: 11/30/2010 | Forthcoming AVAILABILITY: Awaiting stock | |
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| Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume IEdited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Alexei Plutser-Sarno. Text by Danzig Baldaev. Photographs by Sergei Vasiliev.
Occasionally a book is published that reveals a subculture you never dreamt existed. More rarely, that book goes on to become a phenomenon of its own. The 2004 publication of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia was such a phenomenon, spawning two further volumes and alerting a fascinated readership worldwide to the extraordinary and hermetic world of Russian criminal tattoos (David Cronenberg, for example, made regular use of the Encyclopaedia during the making of his 2007 movie Eastern Promises). Now, Fuel has reprinted volume one of this bestselling series, whose first edition already fetches considerable sums online. 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. |  | U.S. LIST PRICE: U.S. $32.95 CANADIAN PRICE: CAN $40 ISBN: 9780955862076 FORMAT: Clth, 5 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 350 b&w. PUBLISHER: FUEL Publishing DISTRIBUTION: | RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLICATION DATE: 10/31/2009 | Active AVAILABILITY: In stock | |
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