<p>Published in 1994. Classic tattoo reference book.  Sheets of Flash from Sailor Jerry, Gus Wagner, Bert Grimm, Owen Jensen, Ben Corday, Rosie Camanga, Brooklyn Joe Lieber, and more.</p>

Flash from the Past: Classic American Tattoo Designs 1890-1965

Hardy, D. E.

Hardy Marks Publications

More works by the great Sailor Jerry from Hardy Marks Publications! To celebrate the centennial year of Jerry's birth (1911) Hardy Marks is digging into the archives of Jerry's secret stash to present something different. These are precision line drawings, some with light color -- the final finished step before cutting stencils. Grouped in tracing paper pads from the late 1940s - early 1950s, with notations by Jerry. Hundreds of the images, many never seen before, that formed the paragon of mid-twentieth century tattooing. Reproduced full size, 11" x 14", with an introduction by Ed Hardy.

Sailor Jerry Tattoo Drawings

Arts & Photography

Okimo, Craig

History & Criticism

Last Gasp of San Francisco

<p>Tino "Rosie "Camanga (1910- ?) came to Honolulu from his native Phillippines sometimes prior to World War II. After observing fellow Filipinos tattooing in the many shops in the downtown/ Chinatown area, in 1944 Rosie was granted a part-time job, and began a career birthed in wartime Honolulu and that lasted until the 1990s. Rosie's primitive, distinctive, obsessively- drawn flash segued from standardized versions of classic tattoo designs to eccentric and mysterious scenarios that were his alone. The format of flash sheets were mere jumping-off points for the world he created. Often sheets were collaged with images he liked, clipped from a magazine, assembled from previous designs, or merely depicting things and sentiments never seen in any other tattoo context. He continued to draw after he stopped tattoing, using the flash format for ever more unexpected forms. Rosie's art anticipates today's stretching of the boundaries of the canon of tattoo themes. But unlike many younger tattoo artists with a self-conscious and ironic stance, Rosie was the real thing: immensely prolific, completely sincere, and driven by a passion for drawing that ultimately sought to satisfy only himself.</p>

Folk Art Tattoo Flash

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