The style of homemade tattoo can be rightfully called simplifying, as basic components of homemade tattoo on both sides of the needle are required to be as primitive as possible. Of course, this will not be the necessary requirement for the tattoo to be called “homemade”, it rather is conditional and depends on the available […]
Homemade tattoos The latest tattoo genre resulting from the liberation of creativity in the 1980s that was more or less officially accepted by the tattoo community is the homemade tattoo. In many respects homemade tattoo can be called a bridge into the tribal past of the craft in both design simplicity and magical function. As
General trends of mainstream tattooing transformation into contemporary tattoo as we know it today were developing exactly in the same time when Don Ed Hardy was introducing his revolutionary innovations. Hardy’s focus on educational work among the new clientele gave its fruits and as more and more people started to wear tattoos openly, more and
Ed Hardy Besides the influence of Sailor Jerry, Ed Hardy also was schooled by another important figure in American tattooing – Phil Sparrow. Sequentially, Ed Hardy’s contact with Collins resulted in strong interest of the former in oriental tattoo and this is why in 1969 after moving to San Diego he opens a studio which
Sailor Jerry Today it is difficult to imagine contemporary tattoo without the influence of Norman Collins, better known as Sailor Jerry, the artist who by his professional activity separated the whole tattoo world into two different ages often referred as BSJ (before Sailor Jerry) and ASJ (after Sailor Jerry) (Patrick 2009). Born in 1911,
The origin of the tattoo machines is closely connected with the invention of electric motor. Electric motor was a revolutionary breakthrough not only in electrical engineering, it promised a variety of domestic applications that had to improve and make the mode of life easier and more convenient. As for the first electrical tattooing device, its
Martin Hildebrandt – one of the best New York’s tattooer started doing his “art” in 1856, while he was working as a sailor aboard the frigate. He was also noted during the Civil War. Hildebrandt marked thousand of soldiers. His tattooes later helped to recognize hundreds of soldiers after being killed. We know that Hildebrandt
Exoticism of tattoo Anyhow, the fact remains that the tradition of tattooing was brought to the western culture and remained there as an embodiment of exoticism, orientalism and an object of mass interest in general. No need to remind that an important part of the development of any human society is one of the economic
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