1000 Tattoos is a Taschen Publication (2005) designed and edited by art expert Burkhard Riemschneider. The book is introduced by leading tattoo artist Henk Schiffmacher, author/co-author of numerous art books including Art at the Turn of the Millennium, Albert Oehlen and Twentieth-Century Erotic Art. Schmacher also runs the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum.
1000 Tattoos – Layout of the Publication
1000 Tattoos is divided into six chapters. The Introduction, On the History and Practice of Tattooing (repeated in French and German), is followed by five collections of images, most of which come from the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum.
- Ethnographic Tattoos
- Classical Tattoo Designs
- From the Early Days to the 1980s
- Japanese Tattoos
- Contemporary Tattoo Art
In his introduction, Henk Schiffmacher explores tattoos as an art form in their own right, explaining how tattoos exist as works of art for only as long as the bearer lives. The author also outlines the wide variety of reactions provoked by this form of physical adornment: anything from curiosity, surprise and admiration to horror and revulsion.
- Tattoo Gun Homemade Diagram
- Krazy Katz Tattoo
- Sweet Pea Tattoo
- Bettie Page Tattoo
This pic of pin-up girl icon Betty Grable was included in Life magazine's "100 Photos that Changed the World"
- Immortal Tattoos