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Original edition: © 1996 Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH© 2005 for the illustrations: The Amsterdam Tattoo Museum, AmsterdamText: Henk Schiffmacher, AmsterdamEdited and designed by Burkhard Riemschneider, CologneCover design: Sense/Net, Andy Disl and Birgit Reber, CologneCo-editiorial coordination: Anne Sauvadet, CologneCopy-editing: Deborah ffoulkes, Yvonne Havertz, CologneEnglish translation: Deborah ffoulkes, CologneGerman translation: Marinus Pütz, AmsterdamFrench translation: Jean Bertrand, Paris

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Contents

Inhalt

Sommaire

6 On the History and Practice of Tattooing

24 Ethnographic Tattoos

72 Classical Tattoo Designs

132 Geschichte und Technik der Tätowierung

150 From the Early Days to the 1980s

364 Histoire et Technique du Tatouage

382 Japanese Tattoos

440 Contemporary Tattoo Art

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