Permanence: Tattoo Portraits by Kip Fulbeck
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 at
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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.
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.
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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.
RT I hope this nigga almost done lol. This shit hurt<«<how are you twitting during a rib tattoo?
British artist Nick Gentry is using floppy disk drives to created mixed-media portraits.
From my hometown! Love my FNB:).
Neige gelée … Permanence depuis la maison
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“The 3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival will take place at the Japanese American National Museum, 369 East 1st Street, June 12-13, 2010, in downtown Los Angeles. The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival, a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts, is gearing up once again to celebrate the storytelling of the Mixed racial and cultural experience, from interracial and intercultural relationships, to transracial and transcultural adoptions, and, anyone who identifies as having a biracial, multiracial, Hapa or Mixed identity. In the last two years, the Festival has showcased many talented filmmakers, writers, and performers including Rebecca Walker, Kip Fulbeck, Danzy Senna, Angela Nissel, Sundee Frasier, Karyn Parsons and many more. The 2010 Festival will bring together innovative artists, film and book lovers, multiracial individuals and families for two days of writing and film workshops, readings, film screenings, and live performances. Events are free and open to the public.”
how fast do you usually heal after each tattoo? you should try to find a day were you can at least have the weekend for your tattoo to get through the beginning of the healing process without sneakers (since the first days are so… … gross lol
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just use the the anti-biotic creme and don't re-wrap your tattoo
but i really think since you already have 2 tattoos you will know your body and how you react and heal so just don't push your limit and wear clean socks lol
is thinking about a leg tattoo. Any suggestions? #fb
Ill do this for free but then, one day, I might come to you for a favor…..
Politicians get everything for free…and that would be why our country is in the state its in today!
You clearly haven’t learned all there is about tattooing, there is a reason why we went through a apprenticeship, and you’ll never learn why. I don’t think you want to learn why either, and that’s why your work looks like it does.
I've never been through that, so I am very sorry for your loss.
My sister got a bird with the baby's initials in a small banner.