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Forever - The New Tattoo
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Forever - The New Tattoo

9783899554427
CHF52.90
Forever breaks the mold of standard tattoo books and their typical displays of flesh. This publication is an in-depth investigation of current developments in contemporary tattoo culture. It introduces key innovators and presents a broad range of styles and approaches. Quality photos and insightful texts document the new self-image of a rapidly expanding...
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Forever More: The New Tattoo

9783899559262
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Forever More covers the best of the ever-changing contemporary tattoo underground. Bold tribal motifs and gritty stick and pokes bask in a resurgence alongside the fluidity of watercolors and the deviance of Art Brut. From traditional sessions in parlors to traveling artists, Forever More celebrates tattooing’s unsung heroes and contemporary celebrities.
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Herbert Hoffmann - Traditionelle Tattoo-Motive

9783927896277
CHF57.80
Herbert Hoffmann, der älteste aktive Tätowierer der Welt, stellt in diesem Bildband seine Sammlung traditioneller Tattoo-Motive vor, die er seit den 50er Jahren in jahrelanger, mühevoller Handarbeit selbst entworfen und gezeichnet hat. Die Sammlung umfasst zum großen Teil Motive aus dem Bereich der Seefahrt, denn es waren hauptsächlich Matrosen, die...
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I 2
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume 1

9780955862076
CHF34.90
The photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than 3000 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant 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,...
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume 2 Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume 2 2
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume 2

9780955006128
CHF34.90
This second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia is an essential companion to the critically acclaimed first volume. It features previously unpublished drawings and photographs from the extraordinary archives of Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev.During his lifetime as a guard in St Petersburg's notorious Kresty Prison, Baldaev diligently...
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume 3 Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume 3 2
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume 3

9780955006197
CHF34.90
This final volume of previously unpublished drawings and photographs completes the "Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopadia" trilogy. Danzig Baldaevs unparalleled ethnographic achievement, documenting over 3,000 tattoo drawings, was made during a lifetime working as a prison guard. The motifs depicted represent the uncensored lives of the criminal classes,...
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Russian Criminal Tattoo: Police Files Volume I Russian Criminal Tattoo: Police Files Volume I 2
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Russian Criminal Tattoo: Police Files Volume 1

9780956896292
CHF34.90
Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files Volume I features more than 180 photographs of Russian criminal tattoos and official police papers from the collection of Arkady Bronnikov, regarded as Russia's foremost authority on criminal tattoo iconography. From the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, Bronnikov worked as a senior expert in criminalistics at the USSR...
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Skin Deep: Looking Beyond the Tattoos Skin Deep: Looking Beyond the Tattoos 2
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Skin Deep: Looking Beyond the Tattoos

9781576878491
CHF49.00
Skin Deep is a photography project that seeks to show the effects of this ongoing gang conflict in Los Angeles. Photographer Steven Burton set out to photograph realistic portraits of former gang members who are trying to escape the revolving door of death and prison. For these men and women, the aftermath of gang life is not only carried within--it is...
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Tattoo Street Style Tattoo Street Style 2
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Tattoo Street Style

9781785037276
CHF35.50
Over four hundred original portraits capture extraordinary tattooed people from around the world, in New York, LA, Melbourne, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, London and Brighton. A curated and eclectic snapshot of today’s modern tattoo culture.Features profiles and interviews with some of the world’s most creative and exciting artists and studios. Also includes...
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Tattooing Rich Mingins
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Tattooing Rich Mingins

9789491394010
CHF88.00
"A very quiet man, smoking all the time. He used to tattoo while seated on a little bench in the back room of his house at 59 Redfern Road, Harleston, in London, while his wife busied herself in the kitchen. There was no flash on the wall, just a book on the table and on the side of his bench he had a roll of paper towel, actually a toilet roll. It was a...
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TATTOOS IN JAPANESE PRINTS TATTOOS IN JAPANESE PRINTS 2
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TATTOOS IN JAPANESE PRINTS

9780878468461
CHF35.50
This book tells the fascinating story of how ukiyo-e first inspired tattoo artists as the pictorial tradition of tattooing in Japan was just beginning. It explores the Japanese tattoo's evolving meanings, from symbol of devotion to punishment and even to crime, and reveals the tales behind specific motifs. With lush, colorful images of flowers blooming on...
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The World Atlas of Tattoo The World Atlas of Tattoo 2
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The World Atlas of Tattoo

9780500517864
CHF43.50
The World Atlas of Tattoo is a vibrant and well-informed showcase of the top 100 tattoo artists at work in the world today from Nazareno Tubaro in Buenos Aires to Colin Dale in Copenhagen, and from Susanne 'Susa' König in Amsterdam to Jill 'Horiyuki' Bonny in California and Steve Ma Ching in New Zealand.Organized geographically, each section is introduced...
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Traditional Tattoo in Japan: HORIKAZU
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Traditional Tattoo in Japan: HORIKAZU

9783943105100
CHF68.00
Traditional Tattoo in Japan: HORIKAZU. Lifework of the Tattoo Master from Asakusa in Tokio is a highlight for all fans of tattoo, and Japan as well!Downright sensational, and uniqe up to date is a series of full-page pictures of Horikazus clients, presenting their full body tattoos openly and with self-confidence. HORIKAZU is an iconographical benchmark,...
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Ttt: Tattoo

9781786270757
CHF85.00
TTT: Tattoo is a visually stunning, high quality art book which explores contemporary tattoo culture across the world. The book features the work of over 300 of the world's best studios and individuals, including Rock of Ages, Saved Tattoo, Into You, the Leu family, Scott Campbell, Duncan X, Maud Dardeau, Stephanie Tamez, Tomas Tomas and Kenji Alucky....
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Yakuza Tattoo Yakuza Tattoo 2
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Yakuza Tattoo

9789188369031
CHF43.50
The art of the Japanese tattoo has fascinated people across the world for decades, but in Japan they are taboo since traditional full body tattoos are associated with the Japanese mafia -- the Yakuza. Few organizations are as feared as the legendary Yakuza.They have an impact well beyond Japan, in real life as well as in popular fiction. Yakuza Tattoo...
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