Tattoo shop front: Les Skuse

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$350.00 HT

Continuing their work of observation and reflection since many years on the tattoo world and in which the exhibition “Tatoueurs, tatoués” at the musée du quai Branly was the first demonstration, Anne & Julien have gathered in the book HEY ! TATTOO (edition Ankama / label 619), published in November 2014, a sum of information that could have been part of an exhibition.

Raw footage from this this now historic exhibition, HEY ! TATTOO contains some unpublished documents as well as a sum of archives restored for the first time, some of them more than 150 years old. For this essential historical overview, covering from the first explorers to the present day, with exclusive interviews with some of the greatest tattoo artists of today, several series of drawings were specially produced in a process identical to the testimonies and documentation.

Two young designers from the HEY! Team thus worked on paper transcript from photographs. Lucie Albrecht realized three watercolor images of historic shops fronts: those of George Burchett, August “Cap” Coleman and Les Skuse, whose timelessness iconography is embodied by very subtle sepia tones. Olivier Escher has meanwhile transcribed with microscope and pencil a selection of archive images representative of large parts of the history of tattooing, the “botched” born in Biribi up to the quintessence of New York’s tattoo scene in the 70s. The historical and aesthetic value of these works is here permitted by the precision of the stroke.