The Japanese Tattoo Paperback by Sandi Fellman; D. M. Thomas

Product Details

• Publisher: Abbeville Publishing Group (1995-01-03)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 120 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780896597983
• Item Weight: 720.09 grams
• Dimensions: 30.48 x 25.4 x 0.76 cm

A crimson fish wrestles a man. A horned demon stares menacingly. 

These vivid scenes are tattoos, created in pain, incised in the flesh of the Yakuza, Japan's feared secret society of gangsters. They are the visions of the Irezumi, the legendary tattoo artists, who spend years creating living masterpieces. Photographer Sandi Fellman describes this strange and violent world both in her text and in her stunning, large 20 x 24 inch Polaroid photographs.

 

About the Author

Sandi Fellman is a well-known photographer whose work has been featured in many one-person and group exhibitions in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia. Her photographs can be found in numerous private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bibliotheque Nationale, and Center for Creative Photography. Her work has also been widely published over the past fifteen years.