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| Permanence: Tattoo Portraits by Kip Fulbeck | 
 enlarge | Author: Kip Fulbeck
Creators: Horitaka, Takahiro Kitamura
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 39045
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 276
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 7 x 6.9 x 1
ISBN: 0811861317
Dewey Decimal Number: 391.65
EAN: 9780811861311
ASIN: 0811861317
Publication Date: March 5, 2008
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Product Description
Once a fringe phenomenon, tattooing is now a full-blown cultural fact. More than 40 million people in the U.S. alone have tattoos, all with unique stories about why they chose to indelibly mark their bodies. Permanence combines photographic tattoo portraits with these stories, told in the subjects' own words and handwriting. Kip Fulbeck brings together young and old of all races, religions, and political persuasions?from celebrities to suburban moms to Hells Angels. Including interviews with celebrity tattooers Kat Von D and Oliver Peck (Miami Ink), hardcore legend Evan Seinfeld, and some regular folks, Permanence is an entertaining and enlightening portrait of the tattooed population today.
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It's about the stories... not the ink March 7, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a LOT more book than I thought it would be. In putting this together, the author wasn't (really) interested in the ink itself, the interest is in the stories _behind_ the ink.
You'll find stories about remembering, about not _wanting_ to remember, about the bad, about the good, about the funny, about the serious. A nice touch here is that each picture of person/ink is accompanied by a short description in the person's own writing. It's an artistic choice that brings up even more personality from the book.
Cheers Mr. Fulbeck!
Amazing Pictures AND Stories! Lots of celebrities too May 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have the author's other books and this book is a great addition to my collection. It's really entertaining, funny and powerful. I LOVE the photographs! I don't have a ton of tattoos myself (I have two) The book is different from other tattoo books in that it's more about the personal stories done in the person's own handwriting. A lot of the stories are amazing especially the gangbangers and Holocaust survivors. There's even a firefighter from 9/11. I leave the book out and guests always pic it up and totally get into it.
Plus I'm a huge fan of Kat Von D so having her interviewed in there was an extra bonus!! It's funny that the celebrities aren't named they're just in there which is cool people like Margaret Cho and Chuck Liddell and Slash. I gave the book to my tattoo artist and he recognized a ton of other tattoo artists in there and said some of them were world famous as well. Very cool!
Definitely not your typical tattoo book June 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am taken by the sheer honesty of the participants in this book. The photos are beautiful but it is the portraits the seem to capture the essence of each individual. Every unique personality from the hilarious to the sublime stand out. This book is a marvel of understatement in a medium that is all about overstatement.
 The stories behind the tattoos September 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Love this book. Saw it in a Dutch shop (in the Netherlands obviously), but it was way cheaper to get it trough Amazon! It's great fun to read and watch. It's not about the most beautiful tattoos, but it's about the stories behind it. The photos are well taken and the stories are written in different fonts. It's also a great gift!
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