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2 Responses to “The Mammoth Book of Tattoos”
L. Bloom
January 24, 2012 at 10:27 am
59 of 61 people found the following review helpful:
This review is from: The Mammoth Book of Tattoos (Paperback)
I usually don’t like ‘flash tattoo’ books of any sort. Unless it’s a very genre specific book with very high quality photos like
Bushido : Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo by Takahiro Kitamura.
Mammoth Tattoos is not a collection for the ‘I must get this tattoo for my next inking’ folks… Leave that for the flash books and various tattoo magazines out there.
Unlike all those though–The Mammoth Book Of Tattoos had me floored as I had never before seen such a staggeringly fresh and inspirational collection of art on almost every page. And certainly every genre. Each artist and their art represented by very high quality photos. I had to pick what I didn’t like and came up with three out of the 80 artists represented.
This really is a fascinating (coffee-table/reference)book for anyone who appreciates graphic design, classic and modern and yes art which only happens to be on an epidermal canvas.
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This review is from: The Mammoth Book of Tattoos (Paperback)
This book is perfect for you if you’re not familiar with the Tattoo/Flash/Savage magazines. Personally I’ve seen all this stuff a million times before in the previously mentioned magazines. The only thing this has that mags don’t is nudity. I had to hide a few pages from prying eyes. My cynical side wonders why Kim Saigh, Corey Miller, and Hannah Aichitson were included. La Ink anyone??? Overall good.
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I usually don’t like ‘flash tattoo’ books of any sort. Unless it’s a very genre specific book with very high quality photos like
Bushido : Legacies of the Japanese Tattoo by Takahiro Kitamura.
Mammoth Tattoos is not a collection for the ‘I must get this tattoo for my next inking’ folks… Leave that for the flash books and various tattoo magazines out there.
Unlike all those though–The Mammoth Book Of Tattoos had me floored as I had never before seen such a staggeringly fresh and inspirational collection of art on almost every page. And certainly every genre. Each artist and their art represented by very high quality photos. I had to pick what I didn’t like and came up with three out of the 80 artists represented.
This really is a fascinating (coffee-table/reference)book for anyone who appreciates graphic design, classic and modern and yes art which only happens to be on an epidermal canvas.
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|Good Book,
This book is perfect for you if you’re not familiar with the Tattoo/Flash/Savage magazines. Personally I’ve seen all this stuff a million times before in the previously mentioned magazines. The only thing this has that mags don’t is nudity. I had to hide a few pages from prying eyes. My cynical side wonders why Kim Saigh, Corey Miller, and Hannah Aichitson were included. La Ink anyone??? Overall good.
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