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ARTISTShawn Barber
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PAGES256
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BINDINGHardcover
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SIZE12" x 10"
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WEIGHT4.6 lbs
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CONTENTPhotos and Tales
Forever and Ever is Shawn Barber's second book, a study of tattoo culture told through his fine art portraits of tattooed people. Barber paints tattooers and collectors with their work fully rendered, treating the tattoos as part of the person rather than decoration on top of them.
The 256-page hardcover pairs those paintings with photographs and written pieces by Grime, Chuck Eldridge, Paul Booth, Henry Lewis, Justin Giarla and Barber himself. The result is part art book, part portrait of a community, with faces and hands from across the tattoo world reproduced at a generous 12" x 10" size.
It is a good fit for tattoo collectors who want art about tattooing rather than flash, for painters interested in how skin and ink can be handled in oils, and for anyone building a library of tattoo culture books beyond the usual design references.
