Mauvais Garçons : Portraits de Tatoués (1890‑1930) — Jérôme Pierrat & Éric Guillon

I found this book and knew it belonged in our collection of alter‑histories before even turning the first page. Mauvais Garçons is not merely a photo‑book—it is a visual dossier of the marginalized, the branded, the marked. Between 1890 and 1930, in France, thousands of tattoos became more than body‑decoration. They became codes, scars, statements—in the prisons, in the penal battalions of North Africa, in the criminal underworld.

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Title: Mauvais Garçons : Portraits de Tatoués (1890‑1930)
Artist / Author: Jérôme Pierrat & Éric Guillon
Date: 2013 (approx.)
Edition: First edition by La Manufacture de Livres
Technique / Printing Method: Offset printing
Medium / Materials: Hardcover (bilingual edition)
Pages: ~178 pages
Language: French / English bilingual
Publisher: La Manufacture de Livres, France
ISBN: 9782358870566
Condition: new