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It Is What It Is: Tattooing the Brooklyn Way
Peter Caruso
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Description for It Is What It Is: Tattooing the Brooklyn Way
Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages, 398 colour photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AFY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 214 x 19. Weight in Grams: 814.
Trace the evolution of the Brooklyn tattooing scene's iconographic status with this rare look into the borough's gritty history. Long before hipsters called Brooklyn home, tattoo legends like Tony Polito, Mikey Perfetto, Marcus Pacheco, and Ronnie Dell’Aquila set long-lasting trends from the '50s on, and gave young artists hope in this often unforgiving town. Peter Caruso visits over a dozen owners, artists, and customers, relating Brooklyn's 20th-century tattoo history through biographies of gritty, no-nonsense tattoo artists. Here, they get the attention they deserve as they focus on events that shaped their craft and style and what inspired them, as teenagers, ... Read more
Trace the evolution of the Brooklyn tattooing scene's iconographic status with this rare look into the borough's gritty history. Long before hipsters called Brooklyn home, tattoo legends like Tony Polito, Mikey Perfetto, Marcus Pacheco, and Ronnie Dell’Aquila set long-lasting trends from the '50s on, and gave young artists hope in this often unforgiving town. Peter Caruso visits over a dozen owners, artists, and customers, relating Brooklyn's 20th-century tattoo history through biographies of gritty, no-nonsense tattoo artists. Here, they get the attention they deserve as they focus on events that shaped their craft and style and what inspired them, as teenagers, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764347870
SKU
V9780764347870
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About Peter Caruso
Peter was born and raised and currently resides in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He got his first tattoo when he was 15. After managing and apprenticing in Paul Raffello's shop for three years, he began his tattooing career.
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