Oct 6
Permanence: Tattoo Portraits by Kip Fulbeck
Posted on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 in Tattoo Information
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 inter…
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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.
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!
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.