Product Description

Once a fringe phenomenon, tattooing is now a full-blown cultural fact. More than 40 million people in the U.S. alone have tattoos, all with unique stories about why they chose to indelibly mark their bodies. Permanence combines photographic tattoo portraits with these stories, told in the subjects' own words and handwriting. Kip Fulbeck brings together young and old of all races, religions, and political persuasions from celebrities to suburban moms to Hells Angels. Including interviews with celebrity tattooers Kat Von D and Oliver Peck (Miami Ink), hardcore legend Evan Seinfeld, and some regular folks, Permanence is an entertaining and enlightening portrait of the tattooed population today.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45880 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 276 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780811861311
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Extensively tattooed artist, filmmaker, and professor Kip Fulbeck is the author of Part Asian, 100% Hapa.

One of the most well known contemporary American tattooers, Horitaka speaks and tattoos across the country.

Customer Reviews

Definitely not your typical tattoo book
I am taken by the sheer honesty of the participants in this book. The photos are beautiful but it is the portraits the seem to capture the essence of each individual. Every unique personality from the hilarious to the sublime stand out. This book is a marvel of understatement in a medium that is all about overstatement.

Amazing Pictures AND Stories! Lots of celebrities too
I have the author's other books and this book is a great addition to my collection. It's really entertaining, funny and powerful. I LOVE the photographs! I don't have a ton of tattoos myself (I have two) The book is different from other tattoo books in that it's more about the personal stories done in the person's own handwriting. A lot of the stories are amazing especially the gangbangers and Holocaust survivors. There's even a firefighter from 9/11. I leave the book out and guests always pic it up and totally get into it.

Plus I'm a huge fan of Kat Von D so having her interviewed in there was an extra bonus!! It's funny that the celebrities aren't named they're just in there which is cool people like Margaret Cho and Chuck Liddell and Slash. I gave the book to my tattoo artist and he recognized a ton of other tattoo artists in there and said some of them were world famous as well. Very cool!

better than most tattoo books
its a small book with breif writing from the person who got the tattoo and I liked it. Wish you could see some different angles of the people with alot of the tats but I still liked the book good gift.