Photographs show examples of the work of leading tattoo artists from around the world

Skin Shows: The Art of Tattoo

Humor & Entertainment

Wróblewski, Chris

Pop Culture

Carol Pub. Group

The author aims to break down the narrow popular conceptions of tattooing and present an exhibition of body decoration, including historical and contemporary examples. He has also written "Skin Shows" and "Tattoo: Pigments of Imagination".

Skin Shows II: The Art of Tatoo

Tattooed Women

Arts & Photography

Decorative Arts & Design

More than fashion statements, less than social stigmata, tattoos in their modern guise are an artistic appropriation of the ancient ritual practice - the marking of flesh as an act of tribal membership.Skin Shows III demonstrates the global reach and cultural diversity of the 'modern primitives', this new tribe of artistic adventurers. Separated by language and national custom, they are nevertheless united in their desire to stand out from the crowd ... you only have to read the signs.

Skin Shows III: The Art of Tattoo

A unique and stimulating book on the subject of tattooing in China. After many years of traveling to Hong Kong and China, photographing the elusive and secretive world of permanent body illustration, British photographer and author Chris Wroblewski has produced the world's first publication on the art of Chinese skin illustration. With over 250 original images, showing the proud wearers of body art, this book takes the reader on a journey through China. From the mountains of Yunan, where the ethnic tribespeople still maintain their tradition of marking the face with butterfly designs that they believe will transport them to heaven in the afterlife; across the plains of China to the metropolis of Hong Kong and the equally colorful world of ancient mariner tattoos. China Tattoo is provocative, substantially researched, and filled with stunning images.

China Tattoo

History & Criticism

Last Gasp

Shows a variety of native, traditional, and modern tattoos, discusses the history of tattooing, and shares the comments of artists and subjects

Tattoo: Pigments of Imagination

Other Media

Vanderbilt Univ Dept of

Tracing a global journey through the history and culture of tattoo art, this is a rich and provocative pictorial survey of an ancient art form that, until recently, remained hidden in our society€™s cultural underground. Above all, it is a book about people and personalities—skinheads, circus freaks, Buddhist monks, tattoo fetishists, and slightly more ordinary individuals all reveal their obsessions with and dedication to the ritual of ink and pain.

Skin Shows: The Tattoo Bible

Photography & Video

COLLINS BROWN

Sabotage!: An In-Depth Investigation of the 1943 Liberator Crash that Killed Polish General Sikorsky

History

Barnard, Garth

Military

Grub Street Publishing

City Indians: Photographs of western tribal fashion

Music

Eichborn

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