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Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos - A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965 (Hardcover)
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Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos - A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965 (Hardcover)
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Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos!In the early 1950s,
when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite
professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann,
Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to become a
tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher for Alfred Kinsey).
Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos tells the story of his years working in
a squalid arcade on Chicago's tough State Street. During that time
he left his mark on a hundred thousand people, from youthful
sailors who flaunted their tattoos as a rite of manhood to
executives who had to hide their passion for well-ornamented flesh.
Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is anything but politically correct. The
gritty, film-noir details of Skid Row life are rendered with
unflinching honesty and furtive tenderness. His lascivious relish
for the young sailors swaggering or staggering in for a new tattoo
does not blind him to the sordidness of the world they inhabited.
From studly nineteen-year-olds who traded blow jobs for tattoos to
hard-bitten dykes who scared the sailors out of the shop, the
clientele was seedy at best: sailors, con men, drunks, hustlers,
and Hells Angels. These days, when tattoo art is sported by
millionaires and the middle class as well as by gang members and
punk rockers, the sheer squalor of Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos is a
revelation. However much tattoo culture has changed, the advice and
information is still sound: how to select a good tattoo artist what
to expect during a tattooing session how to ensure the artist uses
sterile needles and other safety precautions how to care for a new
tattoo why people get tattoos--25 sexual motivations for body
artMore than a history of theart or a roster of famous--and
infamous--tattoo customers and artists, Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos
is a raunchy, provocative look at a forgotten subculture.
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