Tattoos: The Untold History of a Modern Art, published this week, documents the professional history of tattooing in Europe and America over the last 300 years. Martin Hildebrandt, who opened a tattoo parlour in New York in 1858, is “widely considered to be the first professional tattooer in the Western world”, though author Matt Lodder reveals that tattooing was a recognised profession in England as far back as 1719. Lodder traces the subsequent development of tattooing as an art form, including the tattoo renaissance led by American artists such as Lyle Tuttle, and the book includes many previously unpublished illustrations of tattoo photographs, designs, and ephemera.
Tattoo (Tatoueurs, Tatoues) is another key work of tattoo history. Body Decoration (Geschmückte Haut, by Karl Gröning) and The World of Tattoo (De wereld van tatoeage) illustrate tribal tattooing from around the world. The History of Tattooing, published ninety-nine years ago, was the first book on the subject. Andrea Juno and V. Vale’s Modern Primitives, discussed at length in Lodder’s book, is an influential guide to contemporary body modification. The term ‘tattoo renaissance’ was coined by Amie Hill in a cover story for Rolling Stone (no. 67), reprinted in Side-Saddle on the Golden Calf.
Tattoo (Tatoueurs, Tatoues) is another key work of tattoo history. Body Decoration (Geschmückte Haut, by Karl Gröning) and The World of Tattoo (De wereld van tatoeage) illustrate tribal tattooing from around the world. The History of Tattooing, published ninety-nine years ago, was the first book on the subject. Andrea Juno and V. Vale’s Modern Primitives, discussed at length in Lodder’s book, is an influential guide to contemporary body modification. The term ‘tattoo renaissance’ was coined by Amie Hill in a cover story for Rolling Stone (no. 67), reprinted in Side-Saddle on the Golden Calf.
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