TATTOOS

Anna Mudd's story of getting her first tattoo. Her love of picture books led her to get a drawing of Ferdinand the Bull permanently inked on her body. It also led to her first post-tattoo freakout. Learn More

The Tattooed Portraits Series started in 2005 as a (means) to document Artists with tattoos, Tattoo Artists, the tattooing process / experience, and the history of contemporary tattooing. Learn More

Mike Giant's signature black ink graphics mix tattoo styles, Mexican folk art and Japanese illustration, and are unmistakable on concrete, paper or skin. Learn More

The book contains 250 tattoo designs by Mitch O'Connell. They're the best of his three sets of tattoo flash titled 'Stewed, Screwed and Tattooed' (2001), 'Done While Drunk' (2002), and 'From the Bottom of the Barrel' (2006). Learn More

"Dad goes and comes. Like the day, like the night." Learn More

Nordic Tattooing is a new photo history of tattooing put together by Jon Nordstrøm, who brought us the previous book Danish Tattooing. Learn More

The place of tattoos in the cultural milieu of China and Japan today parallels their standing in society in the west in many ways; associations with gangs, outlaws and degenerate subcultures are commonly held perceptions. Learn More

MODERN PRIMITIVES: An anthropological inquiry into a contemporary social enigma - the increasingly popular revival of ancient human decoration practices such as symbolic/deeply personal tattooing, multiple piercings, and ritual scarification. Learn More

Bob Flanagan, born in 1952 in New York City, grew up with Cystic Fibrosis (a genetically inherited, nearly-always fatal disease) and has lived longer than any other person with CF. The physical pain of his childhood suffering was principally alleviated by masturbation and sexual experimentation, wherein pain and pleasure became inextricably linked, resulting in his lifelong practice of extreme masochism. Learn More