This book is an exploration into the unique continuity that exists in New York City between the past and present of the intriguing art form of tattooing. Here the electric tattoo machine was developed, and has had a unique influence in modern tattooing worldwide. The technical and artistic values that first coalesced here during the early 20th century now are intrinsic to the art form. This creative process was pushed underground in the early 1960s when tattooing was banned in New York. After 35 years of marginalization, the city re-legalized tattooing in 1997 in response to the unprecedented surge in public enthusiasm and demand. Today, tattoo artists explore their trade as never before in the five boroughs of New York City; such rapid growth and change has put pressure on an art that continues to emphasize the values formalized over 100 years ago. Hundreds of color photos illustrate this fascinating text, which includes commentary from artists past and present.

Tattooing New York City: Style And Continuity in a Changing Art Form

Arts & Photography

McCabe, Michael

Other Media

Schiffer Pub. Ltd

Over 330 color images display the designs, sacred images, and scripts that are the tattoo art of Indochina. Traditional tattoo forms dating back over a thousand years are presented, expressing the combined animist-tribal beliefs and deep religious faith of a complex and spiritual people. Despite the encroachment of the global community, the skilled priests and specialists of Indochina continue to create tattoo magic today, as displayed and described in a fascinating text. Interviews with individuals using rituals and symbolsreveal the creative process expressed through their tattoos that help them cope with the unpredictable nature of their lives.

Tattoos of Indochina: Magic, Devotion, & Protection

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

Schiffer

Japanese men have been marked by tattoo artists for the past 300 years. Todays urbane Japanese youth continue the tradition, proudly creating and wearing this ever changing art form. Over 530 breathtaking color photos display a vast range of Japanese tattoos, from traditional full-body forms repleat with classical images steeped in symbolism, including Horimono, to modern One-Point style, heavily influenced by the cultures of the West.\nThe fascinating text provides a glimpse of Japans youth culture and recounts, through personal interviews, stories of Japanese masters of the tattoo art, including Senseis Horihide, Horiyoshi III, Horitoshi I, Horiyasu, and Horikoi. Readers will see some of the most intricate tattoo art in the world, while traveling through time from the 19th century Edo Floating World to the busy streets of modern Tokyo.

Japanese Tattooing Now: Memory and Transition

History & Criticism

New York City custom car and motorcycle culture has long been overshadowed by the left coast designers and machines. In this unprecedented book, urban anthropologist Michael McCabe presents the stories, innovators, and machines behind NYC car and motorcycle builders. He reveals an outsider’s tale filled with passion, creativity, and high-speed thrills. Based on a year’s worth of interviews and photo shoots with nearly 40 custom builders, McCabe offers unique access to their private, creative lives and impressive collections of machines in garages and workshops throughout the five boroughs. Legendary urban personalities like “Big Daddy” George LeBlanc, Mel Bernstein, and Dick Zigun tell the history of NYC horsepower, including nostalgia for the days of the NASCAR-sanctioned Weissglass Speedway on Staten Island, illegal street racing, car clubs, and shows. Voices from the groundswell of younger builders, like John Copeland, Sal Pepi, and Pete Ranko, complete this collection of oral histories and images and show respect for the city’s hands-on narrative. With nearly 800 images of custom cars and motorcycle, this history is ideal for builders, car collectors, and urban historians.

New York City Horsepower: An Oral History of Fast Custom Machines

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

This book explores how Arizona became the way it is today, the people who came there from the stone age hunters through the end of the 20th century. It explores the conflicts and melding of the many different cultures. Reading level 4th grade.

Arizona, grassroots

Children's Books

Cloud Pub

California Roots

California popular culture has deeply impacted the world throughout the 20th century, and the East/West dialog provides inexhaustible ground for inspiration. Today, the cultural stylizations of hot rod and kustom kulture are part of a nostalgic mystique that is being adopted by a growing number of young people in Japan, who see Kustom Kulture as transcendent, powerful, and most importantly, defining. The Japanese visionaries represented in this book continue to embrace, digest, perfect and transform powerful sub- and mainstream realms of expression. Mike McCabeâ€™s photographs and words are a fresh and amazing testament to this process of reinvention.* Bilingual English and Japanese

Kustom Japan

Hardy Marks Publications

Hardy Marks Publications proudly announces the reissue of the classic and long out of print book New York City Tattoo. First published in 1997, it consists of in-depth, profusely illustrated interviews with the primary tattooers working in New York City prior to the ban on tattooing that went into effect in 1961 and lasted for 36 years. Cultural historian Michael McCabe, Americaâ€™s pre-eminent chronicler of tattoo history, gained the confidence of the small, hermetic community of people working in the â€œwild old daysâ€ when tattooing was a marginalized practice. This is a passionate, personal record full of amazing rough and tumble stories from a distant era, light years away from tattooingâ€™s current popularity and acceptance. New York City Tattoo has been expanded to 144 pages, with even more stunning visuals, a revised authorâ€™s foreword, and added text about where the tattooers are now.

New York City Tattoo: The Oral History of an Urban Art

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Cartoonist Rocky Stellar has just lost his job. Out of work for the first time in forty years, Rocky knows he is not ready for retirement and wants to rediscover his artistic passion. Seeking advice, he visits a quirky Arizona desert recluse and storyteller. Through powerful questions and stories, Padre Cisco challenges Rocky as he embarks on a journey of reflection and self-discovery. His story unfolds in unexpected ways as his desire to repair his art life and his contentious relationships with his father and daughter take precedence. Driven to find a clear path to fulfillment, Rocky must learn to balance his inner-struggles with Padre Ciscos wisdom as he seeks to answer the padres pivotal question: Are you willing to give up what you know to learn what you do not? Padre Cisco: Conversations with a Desert Father shares the introspective journey of an out-of-work cartoonist as he searches for spiritual understanding through his own reflections and the wisdom of an Arizona storyteller. It isnt often I get to learn from someone who delivers the truth on a punch line. Rocky Stellar

Padre Cisco: Conversations with a Desert Father

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

iUniverse

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Books by McCabe, Michael

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Tattooing New York City: Style And Continuity in a Changing Art Form

Tattoos of Indochina: Magic, Devotion, & Protection

Japanese Tattooing Now: Memory and Transition

New York City Horsepower: An Oral History of Fast Custom Machines

Arizona, grassroots

California Roots

Kustom Japan

New York City Tattoo: The Oral History of an Urban Art

Padre Cisco: Conversations with a Desert Father

Padre Cisco: Conversations with a Desert Father