Flash & Flashbacks: The Enduring Ad of Tattoo Percy Waters(publicity shot); Detroit; r. 1920; collection of the author.
MICHAEL McCABE
For some time the practice of tattooing has
been viewed by Western culture as a fringe behavior
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that is often best ignored—or at least underemphaStella Grossman, wife of the tattoo artist "Deafy"; possibly Coney Island. Brooklyn. New York; c. 1930; collection of the author.
sized. The existence and perseverance of tattooing
in modern life creates a degree of social stress because it flies Stanley Moskowitz (right)and Dick Hyland: Bowery. N.Y.C.; c. /955; ollec non ofthe author.
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