Interesting links and articles about tattoos and piercings
We share with you interesting links and articles about tattooing and piercing:
A Facebook group we recommend you join, focusing on the history and primitive culture of tattooing worldwide, particularly rich in old photographs.
Also a Facebook page for those passionate about the history of tattooing and body modifications around the world.
The reference E-zine in bodmod culture since 1994:
"BME supports and celebrates the global body modification community. We provide a platform for everyone to share their experiences, art, and knowledge in a spirit of openness and respect."
A goldmine for any enthusiast of tattoo culture and history, where you can also get the excellent fanzine Free Hands.
This article traces the evolution of tattooing and its perception in France since the 19th century, and it is very fascinating!
Instagram page, fascinating photographic archives about Russian tattooing.
Article to discover on the National Geographic website.
"Kintaro Publishing, born from a passion for independence within the dynamic tattoo industry, strives to redefine the narrative of tattoo art through high-quality and distinctive publications. Our mission is built on a commitment to selectivity, innovation, and originality, fostering a community of professional tattoo artists, enthusiasts, designers, and art students."
An excellent book by "Denis Bruna [who] presents an unprecedented investigation into piercing at the heart of painted images from the 14th and 15th centuries. On the faces of actors in religious scenes: rings, pendants, and chains fixed to the flesh… These ornaments were, in medieval Western Europe, reserved for singular figures in Christian iconography: executioners, judges, Black people, Jews, Saracens. A mark of infamy in the Middle Ages, piercing is now asserting itself as a voluntary and assertive act."
"From the Devil to the Indian, from the Gypsy to the prince, piercings thus evolve between suspicious marginality, unsettling exoticism, and appropriation by mainstream culture. Today, one is less likely to die of gangrene after having one's lip or eyebrow pierced: but, even if its spread tends to normalize it, the shadow of medieval fantasies, which saw it as a diabolical attribute, a symbol of infamy and strangeness, still hovers behind these small metal rings."
