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Authors:Phejin Konyak,Peter Bos Published on: 2018-09 Publisher: Pages: 200 ISBN:9351941124 ISBN13: 9789351941125 Category:Photography Books Rating: Total Buying 4 - The first time such intensive research and documentation on Konyak tattoo art has been undertaken - An overall view of the Konyak people, their society, way of life and the culture in detail The Konyaks - a once fearsome headhunting tribe in Nagaland on the border of Myanmar in northeast India - are well known for their iconic body and facial tattoos, originally earned for taking an enemy's head. This book - over four years in the making - is the personal journey of a Konyak woman who retraces the steps of her grandfather and great-grandfather by documenting her tribe's tattooing practices. She explores the Konyak's concept of beautification of the body using it as a canvas for art, with inscriptions marked on the skin as a form of rite of passage and cycle of life. With elegant and powerful portraits of elders...

Authors:Frieke Janssens Published on: 2017-12-30 Publisher: Lannoo Publishers Pages: 160 ISBN:9401446474 ISBN13: 9789401446471 Category:Photography, Artistic Books Rating: Total Buying 12 Over the past two decades Frieke Janssens has built a solid reputation in staged photography. Her visual language is both surprising and playful and reveals a great sense of humor. It is often redolent with tension and her works exude an unspoken, tragic undercurrent. Janssens' images are sumptuously beautiful, but touch upon subjects that aren't: death, smoking, drinking, and the battle between the sexes. This combination of taboo and pure aestheticism marks her style, hence: The Sweetest Taboo.Over the past two decades Frieke Janssens has built a solid reputation in staged photography. Her visual language is both surprising and playful and reveals a great sense of humor. It is often redolent with tension and her works exude an unspoken, tragic undercurrent. Janssens' images are sumptuous...

Authors:M. Young Published on: 2005 Publisher: Pages: 206 ISBN:1890772496 ISBN13: 9781890772499 Category:Photography Books Rating: Total Buying 17 A photo-essay book in praise of the ancient art of tattooing as an expression of the sacred in the contemporary world. Exploring new potentials of the skin art that has risen out of the popular tattoo culture of the streets, The Alchemy and the Agony takes the tattoo experience beyond the obvious and popular. This tatouage is transpersonal, even universal, an experience of transformation both primal and sublime. This is the natural alchemy that results when sacred images are emblazoned on the canvas of the human body.A photo-essay book in praise of the ancient art of tattooing as an expression of the sacred in the contemporary world. Exploring new potentials of the skin art that has risen out of the popular tattoo culture of the streets, The Alchemy and the Agony takes the tattoo experience beyond the obvious and popular. This tatouage is tr...

Authors:Chris Martin Published on: 2008-11-01 Publisher: Cassell Pages: 160 ISBN:1844036618 ISBN13: 9781844036615 Category:Photography Books Rating: Total Buying 31 Featuring your best-loved stars of film, TV, music and sport this book is a celebration of the ultimate celebrity accessory: the tattoo. With vital tat-istics, features on A-list tattoo artists and packed full of photos this is a smart and witty look at the global trend of celebrity body art, and the designs that have become iconic and influenced millions of imitators since adorning the arm, back, hip, or elsewhere of the likes of Xtina, Paris, Amy, Becks and Angelina. You may not have their lifestyle, but with the temporary transfer tattoos you can get their look!Featuring your best-loved stars of film, TV, music and sport this book is a celebration of the ultimate celebrity accessory: the tattoo. With vital tat-istics, features on A-list tattoo artists and packed full of photos this is a smart and witty look at the global...

Authors:Birgit Krols Published on: 2012-09 Publisher: Pages: 384 ISBN:9461580371 ISBN13: 9789461580375 Category:Photography Books Rating: Total Buying 10 This large format book with clamshell box showcases more than 400 images of tattoos and tattooed people from all layers of society and all parts of the world, throughout time.This large format book with clamshell box showcases more than 400 images of tattoos and tattooed people from all layers of society and all parts of the world, throughout time. “If you love books enough, books will love you back.” –Jo Walton More info about Popular tattoo's

Authors:James Rouse Published on: 2016-05-17 Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 46 ISBN:1524608866 ISBN13: 9781524608866 Category:Photography Books Rating: Total Buying 16 Mostly old houses and barns kept up and falling down. All are in eastern North Carolina. I have been photographing this for about eight years. The newer, the better due to better cameras. I am seventy years old and raised on a farm, and the old buildings are falling down. I dont know if this would sell or not. Maybe you would know.Mostly old houses and barns kept up and falling down. All are in eastern North Carolina. I have been photographing this for about eight years. The newer, the better due to better cameras. I am seventy years old and raised on a farm, and the old buildings are falling down. I dont know if this would sell or not. Maybe you would know. “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” –Edmund Burke More info about Popular tattoo's