| 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."
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A Process Revealed
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Alix Lambert: Crime
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BibliOdyssey: Amazing Archival Images from the Dusty Corners of the Internet!
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Crime
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Fleur Olby: Plant Portraits
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Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts
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Ideas Have Legs: Ian McMillan vs. Andy Martin
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Jake & Dinos Chapman: Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights
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Jake Chapman: Memoirs of My Writer’s Block
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Jake Chapman: Memoirs of My Writer’s Block
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Jake Chapman: The Marriage of Reason & Squalor
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Jake Chapman: The Marriage of Reason & Squalor
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Jake Chapman: The Marriage of Reason & Squalor
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Match Day: Official Football Programmes
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Notes From Russia: Hand-Made Street Notices
ISBN: 9780955006173 | US $32.95
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Limited Edition Boxed Set
ISBN: 9780955862038 | US $1,995.00
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I
ISBN: 9780955862076 | US $32.95
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III
ISBN: 9780955006197 | US $32.95
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia Volume II
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Spirit: Garden Inspiration
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The Music Library
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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. | |  |
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ISBN: 9780955862076
FORMAT: Clth, 5 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 350 b&w.
PUBLISHER: FUEL Publishing
PUBLICATION DATE: 10/31/2009 | Active
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