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Summary: extremely helpful
Review: I found this book to be more in line for artists and photographers, but I purchased it for the tattoos, informaton on Tahitian tattoos, and ideas for my own. If you are interesed in Pacific culture, tattoos, or artistic photography this book is a must have as it covers ALL these like none other I've seen. Aloha
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Summary: Beautiful and Excellent
Review: I found this book to be more in line for artists and photographers, but I purchased it for the tattoos, informaton on Tahitian tattoos, and ideas for my own. If you are interesed in Pacific culture, tattoos, or artistic photography this book is a must have as it covers ALL these like none other I've seen. Aloha
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Summary: extremely helpful
Review: I purchased this book for a cultural anthropology class I took last semester. After examining the work, I then decided to use it as a source for a paper, in which I received an "A." The photographs of tattoos were both visually stimulating and inspiring, yet females should be included as a comparison for tattoo styles. Equal photographs (or any at all) of women's tattoos would indeed be a great help, and a joy to admire.
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Summary: Very Good Work.
Review: In this kind of books is very difficult to organize the history, the pictures and the theme. The author made a very good job, the photographies are great and the tattoos beautiful. I hope to see soon another work like this one.
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Summary: Lacking polynesian female content
Review: Photographs were excellent however dissappointing that although the author mentions polynesian female tatooing in several places, there are no photographs of tatooed women. Signed: Dissapointed Samoan Woman
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Summary: Tahitian art
Review: The "Robinet D'Amour" tattoo is so witty and amusing.There are some good line drawings for references to study. Page 112 does show that the tattoos were painted on and washing off in the ocean. Aloha!
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Summary: Tahitian art
Review: The "Robinet D'Amour" tattoo is so witty and amusing. There are some good line drawings for references to study. Page 112 does show that the tattoos were painted on and washing off in the ocean. Aloha!
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Summary: Tahitian art
Review: The "Robinet D'Amour" tattoo is so witty and amusing. There are some good line drawings for references to study. Page 112 does show that the tattoos were painted on and washing off in the ocean. Aloha!
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Summary: quite disappointed
Review: The book is good but I got disappointed with some pictures. The reason is that some of those polynesian guys arent really tattooed - those tattoos are FAKE. Pay attention and you'll see some of their designs being erased by the water. So many tattooed people there and he author decided to pick a non-tattooed guy to draw some fake tattoos just to take his pictures, probably because he found those guys handsome. What a shame.
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Summary: Tahiti Tatoos
Review: The book is quite beautifully done in a sepia coloring with artfully done photography of tatoos with a narrative of the history of tatoos throughout Tahiti and Polynesia
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