- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Bulfinch (Nov 15 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 082122817X
- ISBN-13: 978-0821228173
- Product Dimensions: 29.8 x 24.6 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 880 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,385,885 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Popularized by sailors and bikers, tattoos have become indispensable fashion accessories for rockers and rappers, whose professional responsibility it is to embody exotic, outlaw primitivism to the public. Hence this coffee-table collection of photographs of tattooed celebrities culled from the pages of Rolling Stone. The portraits here, by famous celebrity and fashion photographers, are heavily weighted toward sleeveless, scowling male musicians, whose remarkably consistent tattoo tastes run to a comic book aesthetic of gothic lettering, deaths heads, dragons and babes (until they age and begin inscribing wives' and childrens' names into their flesh). Accompanying interviews and captions allow the subjects to pontificate on the personal significance of their tattoos ("Weed was the biggest part of my life at that point," muses Crazytown's Shifty Shellshock of his marijuana-leaf tattoo). While fans of the celebrities pictured here will swoon over the lush photos, the book fails to make the case for tattoos as real works of art capable of signifying something to onlookers as well as to their owners.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Book Description
Tattoos, rock and roll, and "Rolling Stone"--the ideal combination for the ultimate book on celebrities and their tattoos. "Tattoo Nation" features 100 candid and never-before seen photos and revealing interviews that chronicle the gradual emergence of this evocative art form into mainstream society via pop-culture icons.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Be a rebel!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Tattoo Nation: Portraits of Celebrity Body Art (Hardcover)
Be a rebel - look like everyone else! Another lame book from Rolling Stone.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful Photography of American Culture,
By Kelsey (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tattoo Nation: Portraits of Celebrity Body Art (Hardcover)
If you don't like tatoos, get this book for the wonderful photography. It portrays celebrities in their best light. It also features quotes about how each person feels about their tatoo and the reasoning and personal memories behind it. Tatoos are a growing part of American Culture, and it seems now that the peolple that are unique, are the ones that are un-inked. This a great and fun coffee-table book, and also makes an amazing gift.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Photographs of the famous..Oh yes and some tattoos.,
By Todd l Slezak (Truckee, California United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tattoo Nation: Portraits of Celebrity Body Art (Hardcover)
I was disappointed when I received this book. The title is very deceitful. What the book really showed was posed photographs of rock stars and actors. What was not shown were detailed photographs of tattoos, nor was there really any explanation or narrative about the individual photograph itself. The book is weak and definately not for someone interested in tattoos. However, if your interested in photographs of a few famous people, you should buy the book.
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