Carol Clerk is a veteran music writer and author who has written for a number of underground newspapers and 'zines like the weekly Melody Maker.
"It seems like everyone and their mother has been inked. Carol
Clerk's new tome, Vintage Tattoos, The Book of Old-School Skin
Art, tracks the evolution of old-school pin-up girl pieces...as
well as classic floral, nautical, death memorials and heart
designs." Nylon Magazine "We've read our fill about tattooed
circus acts and indigenous people, but we'll always make time for
the scalawags who revolutionized tattoo art. The best chapters in
Carol Clerk's Vintage Tattoos: The Book of Old-School Skin Art
detail the history of nautical and patriotic tattoos and their
superstitions." Inked Magazine "The lavishly displayed wealth of
brightly colored old-school flash is the heart of Vintage Tattoos,
and the main reason you'll find yourself flipping through it again
and again. (Clerk's) ruminations on these designs and their cryptic
meanings are enlightening." Playboy.com "Vintage Tattoos is as much
a tat history for tat lovers as it is for anyone into pop culture
and art. Gems of tattoo lore transport us to the traveling circuses
of the turn of the century (which kick-started America's tattoo
fascination) and hidden backroom parlors which popped up once state
governments started banning tattooing in the 1960s. It's a history
lesson worth its ink." ModernTonic.com "Vintage Tattoos...is 256
pages of art and anecdotes. Salty stories of tattoo times when
shotguns, not art school degrees, hung on the walls behind the
parlor counter. When tattooists traveled with the circus, not metal
bands. And when the art went underground because of tattoo bans."
Needled.com "...an entertaining and informative title that should
be in every tattoo enthusiast's book collection." Skin Art Magazine
"Somehow quaint and sexy at once, this opus of the epidermis will
stimulate smiles, winces, and perhaps more." Passport Magazine
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