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High Voltage Tattoo
Kat Von D
Collins Design
February 2009
On Sale: February 1, 2009
176 pages
ISBN: 0061684384
EAN: 9780061684388
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
High Voltage Tattoo is a graphic perspective on today's
global tattoo culture by Kat Von D, star of The Learning
Channel's L.A. Ink and one of the most talented and popular
artists working today. Designed in a style that is reminiscent of a handmade Gothic
journal with its red padded cover, ornate typography, and
parchment-like pages, it throws the door wide open to
tattooing culture in the way only an insider like Kat can.
High Voltage Tattoo traces Kat's career as an artist, from
early childhood influences to recent work, along with
examples of what inspires her, information about the show
and her shop, her sketches, and personal tattoos. The book goes deep into tattoo process and culture: readers
can see up close the pigments, the tools, and the making of
complex, even collaborative, tattoos. With a foreword by
Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx, the book features images and
stories about celebrities, rockers, pro skaters, and
everyday citizens, including Slayer's Kerry King, Anthrax's
Scott Ian, Margaret Cho, Jackass' Bam Margera, David
Letterman, and many others. It profiles and showcases the
work of artists Kat has selected from all over the world,
her interviews with people who have compelling tattoos and
stories, and amazing images of extraordinary tattoo work.
Numerous portfolios throughout the book showcase a range of
relevant subjects, from the black and gray portrait work for
which Kat is famous to a popular tattoo theme, such as the
rose or biblical images. There is a knockout ten-page
full-body spread of Kat—clad in a yellow bikini and
seven-inch, rhinestone-studded red stilettos—that catalogs
in detail all her personal tattoos on her front, back, left,
and right sides—even her hands and head.
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