Tattoo History Mystery
Images cut out of library books have always fascinated me. Beyond the basic “What *was* that image anyway?”, follow up questions like “So why did someone steal the image” lead to flights of fantasy...
View ArticleBook review: Last of the Bowery Scab Merchants
I had promised book reviews when I started up Tattoo History Occasionally a few months ago. So…with the holiday giving season ramping up, I thought I’d start to crank some of these out (I have a large...
View ArticleA History-Assisting Historian? Helping Lyle Tuttle Tattoo on 7 Continents!
I just got back from a trip to Antarctica with the storied tattoo artist Lyle Tuttle. Slightly over a year ago at a convention, a little bird mentioned to me that Lyle wanted to visit Antarctica so he...
View ArticleThe Cook Myth: Common Tattoo History Debunked
Tracking the origins of tattoo-history myths is a favorite pastime of mine. So many abound and continually get perpetuated. A recent thread on my personal Facebook page (posted to public so you can...
View ArticleTattoo Business Historical Survey and Baseline
Four recent tattoo projects with which I have been involved acutely highlighted the need for better analytical data to understand how tattooing has changed over time. In all of them, I was tasked with...
View ArticleA Dozen Questions to Ask When Writing About Tattoo History and Culture
Attention all who write or might want to write about tattoo history and/or culture! (This includes journalists, bloggers, academics, and more…) Here’s a handy list of a dozen questions to ask yourself...
View ArticleFlash Art of Amund Dietzel
I had the pleasure of taking a quick day trip up to Milwaukee on a crisp and sunny fall day to see the special exhibit Tattoo: Flash Art of Amund Dietzel at the Milwaukee Art Museum before it closed. I...
View ArticleBook Review: Drawing with Great Needles
If you have an interest in tattoo history, you must add Drawing with Great Needles: Ancient Tattoo Traditions of North America to your book collection. I can’t emphasize this enough! In it, editors...
View ArticleLyle Tuttle Antarctica 2014 Press Release
Official press release out for the Lyle Tuttle Antarctica 2014 project. After 2 1/2 weeks of seeing if anyone could refute the claim that he’s the first to tattoo on all 7 continents, I’m ready to call...
View ArticleThe Melodramatic Nostalgia of Tattoo Reporting
On Saturday I presented a paper at the 2014 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference (on what ended up being quite a solid panel with my fellow tattoo-scholar friends...
View ArticleTattooed Transculturites–Read My PhD Tattoo-History Dissertation Online
My dear fans and followers, a gift from me to you for the new year: I’ve put my PhD dissertation, Tattooed Transculturites: Western Expatriates Among Amerindian and Pacific Islander Societies,...
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