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Summary: Decent enough.
Review: I was/am strongly considering getting a Tattoo and I picked this book up in the local Borders. One thing I'll say is don't pay the full $35 price.It's got a lot of neat and interesting pictures along with quotes from the owner of the tattoos. It's a good book to look at a couple times, but you'll go through it quick (Making it not worth the price). One plus: It's definitely a good conversation piece. Some of the pictures in this book will stun people, make them laugh, or cause genuine interest.
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Summary: Decent enough.
Review: I was/am strongly considering getting a Tattoo and I picked this book up in the local Borders. One thing I'll say is don't pay the full $35 price. It's got a lot of neat and interesting pictures along with quotes from the owner of the tattoos. It's a good book to look at a couple times, but you'll go through it quick (Making it not worth the price). One plus: It's definitely a good conversation piece. Some of the pictures in this book will stun people, make them laugh, or cause genuine interest.
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Summary: Another Art Form Well Presented
Review: One of the aspects of contemporary art that is most striking is the choice of matrix on which artists elect to create art: Goldsworthy us the earth's surface, the Christos wrap buildings, graffiti has been considered art since Basquait brought it to our attention in the 1980s, animal skins, streets, etc - the list is endless. In this very handsomely photographed book of richly colored images, authors Gary Lee Heard and David Culturra celebrated the ever-growing fad of tattoo and piercing as an art form n this country. And in this volume not only is the art well documented, but the 'matrix' talks: the various models who posed for these fascinating photographs are given some space to comment on their motivations and beliefs in what they have chosen to do or have done to their bodies.
Not that tattoo and piercing are new elements of body decoration: Heard is quick to demonstrate that many tribes of peoples other than whose whom he elects to photograph have been using these techniques as ritual adornment for centuries. But the point of the book is to display the at times extraordinarily beautiful compositions that use the human body as canvas, using the popular techniques available in every city of the USA.
This is basically a picture book, but one that bears repeated viewing to absorb all the intricacies of the art of tattooing and piercing. A valuable addition to the art library literature. Grady Harp, December 2004
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Summary: Page 65 rocks!
Review: You are going to see the true art of tattooing. Not everyone gets their whole body done, but you will see different aspects of it. I especially like Trevor Sibary on page 65 as he is my son and has not only received beautiful work by his dad, Falcon Fred, but also did 3 of my tattoo's (mom specials, lol) and he far exceeded anything his father could have taught him. They tattoo out of Columbus, GA at Falcon's on Broadway.
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