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  • Marquis De Sade

    Written by

    BME

    Here’s a new book that, while not exactly body modification related, will probably still be of interest to lots of you!

    Goliath Books presents…

    Marquis De Sade – 100 Erotic Illustrations

    Vintage erotic edition!

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    Marquis De Sade has shocked for generations, was sentenced to death, his books were censored, artists, authors as well as psychologists have dealt with his work. De Sade writings became the symbol of the forbidden worldwide – perversion personified. Now, for the first time, Goliath Books presents a unique text-free collection of all erotic illustrations of De Sade’s works, published as a beautiful hardcover book.

    More after the break! NSFW!

    The Marquis De Sade’s writings have since experienced a great deal: they have been forbidden, burnt, banned, censored, and interpreted by notable psychologists and writers. In the age of Pornhub, however, De Sade’s scandalous writings are far below the arousal threshold that their image would lead us to assume.

    Marquis De Sade – 100 Erotic Illustrations
    Publisher: GOLIATH
    Pages: 112
    Illustrations: 100
    Hardcover
    Languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
    ISBN: 978-3-95730-037-9
    Size: 14 x 21 cm / 5.5” x 8.5”
    € 24.99 – 22.99 GBP – 34.99 USD
    www.goliathbooks.com

  • Lexicon of Tribal Tattoos (book)

    Written by

    BME

    Lexicon of Tribal Tattoos: Motifs, Meanings, and Origins
    Radomir Fiksa

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    Tattoos have played an important role in human culture for thousands of years. Ideal for the tattoo artist, anthropologist, or tattoo fan, this visual lexicon covers tattoos from hundreds of different cultures and lists meanings, reasons for wearing, rites of passage, and indicates placement for thousands of individual tattoos. Complete with nearly 650 illustrations, the book breaks down the symbology of these tattoos, indicating the origin and significance of motifs from tattoo cultures that still exist and those that have been lost to history. The breadth and depth of this information serves to inspire today’s tattoo artist and expand the knowledge of this ancient and global phenomena.

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    Size: 6″ x 9″ | 640 b/w illustrations | 240 pp
    ISBN13: 9780764355653 | Binding: hard cover
    Buy: Amazon.com, Amazon.ca

    About the Author:
    A professional tattoo artist from the Czech Republic, Radomir Fiksa writes articles and books on tattoo art and body modification. He is the founder of Provocative Tattoo, where he trains future tattoo artists.

  • Tattoo Super Models (Book)

    Written by

    BME

    TATTOO SUPER MODELS

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    Highly stylized, classy and sensually sexy images of inked models, shot by Christian Saint, a leader in the world of tattoo photography. Using light masterly to caress a woman´s skin, he is highlighting the sexiness of individual body art with a finesse that everybody can fall in love with.

    Excitingly determined…
    For many years social critics have been trying to make young people aware of the fact that tattoos will last for a lifetime and that the insights of an 18-year-old might differ to the way they perceive things when they are 40. Tattoo Super Models by Christian Saint counters that well made tattoos on beautiful women are simply gorgeous. It is a plea for the courage to beautify oneself permanently, to do this without any fear of regret it once you’re old – because the bravado to really live in the moment is extremely sexy.

    (NSFW after the link)

    ChristianSaint_ElWood_2 Tattooed model Hattie Watson photography by Christian Saint. Alt tattoo model / singer Leah Jung photographed by Christian Saint. Alt tattooed model Vanessa Lake photographed by Cristian Saint.

    Christian Saint is a professional advertising, celebrity and fine art photographer, residing in (Williamsburg) Brooklyn, New York. With over 20 years experience in the commercial world and tired of the industry’s narrow view of beauty, he focused his sites on the tattoo community. Using his knowledge from commercial fashion and beauty, he helps bring “alternative” to the main-stream. With his unique, sophisticated style he has successfully dragged tattoo photography out of hiding, while consistently exciting a large inter-national audience.

    Tattoo Super Models features inked beauties with perfect shapes, wearing almost nothing but seductive body art. Using light masterly to caress a woman’s skin, Christian Saint is highlighting the sexiness of individual body art with a finesse that everybody can fall in love with. Elegant, capriciously and truly sexy.

    Publisher: GOLIATH
    ISBN 13: 978-3-95730-000-3
    Size/Format: 5.5” x 8.5” / 14,5 x 21,5 cm
    144 Pages / Seiten
    Hardcover
    English, German, Français, Español, Italiano
    US$ 34.95 – £ 22.99 – Euro 24,90
    www.goliathbooks.com

    See also Tattooed Beauties Book

  • Tattooed Beauties Book

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    BME

    TATTOOED BEAUTIES

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    € 34.99 / 32.99 GBP / $44.99
    www.goliathbooks.com

    Star photographer Christian Saint’s best book yet. Perfect photos, masterfully produced with 50 of the world’s most beautiful tattoo models. The photo book shows lots of naked flesh, together with the most ingenious tattoos. 

Five stars each for the best photographer, most beautiful models, and most creative tattoos! Stylish, professional, and super sexy.

    Tattoo artist Alisha Gory photographed by Christian Saint in New York

    (Click for the rest of the press release. NSFW!)

    Phenomena are often most interesting when in combination with one another, especially when it comes to extremely beautiful models with super tattoos. Statistics prove how tattoos have now become a standard part of our western culture. Over a quarter of Americans have at least one tattoo, with this number rising to a third amongst people under 30. However, so far only a small group of the many fans have gotten particularly intricate and artistically valuable tattoos. Even smaller is the group of above-average looking girls and women with such outstanding, cool tattoos. Take it from us: looking at both together is just fun and conjures real tattoo voyeurism.

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    Masterfully produced by fashion and tattoo star photographer Christian Saint, across 250 high-quality printed pages you will see over 50 great-looking tattoo beauties, including Kelly Eden, Bonnie Rotten, Abbey So, Riae, Maegan Machine, Fallon Ven Detta, Alesandra Nicole, Emily Shephard, Cleo Wattenström, Kayte Rae, Annasthesia Awful, Bambu Jessica, Dani Vi, Gabriella Saturria, Linette Otero, Hayley G, Vanessa Lake, Jennifer Lynn, Jesse Lee D, Jessica Wilde, Kay Reynolds, Leila Rose, Leza Lush, Linnea Thomasia, Phay Moss, and Sarah Jensen. Also included are loads of exciting top tattoos, all super erotic and fantastically photographed.

    Tattoo model Sarah Giampapa photographed by Christian Saint in New York

    Statistically, almost a fifth of all people with a tattoo regret their tattoo at some point. In most cases this is because it is the name of a person they no longer like – I bet if it was the name of one of the girls in this book, they would not have regretted it.

    Threes thumbs up: best photographer, most beautiful models, most creative tattoos!

    Biography Christian Saint:

    Christian Saint is a professional Advertising, Celebrity & Fine Art photographer from Brooklyn NY. Unsatisfied with the industries narrow view of beauty, Christian focused his efforts on the tattoo community, using his knowledge of commercial fashion and beauty, to help bring “alternative” to the mainstream. From 2007-2015, Christian has been an exclusive contributor to Tattoo Life Magazine, casting and shooting all of their covers. With clients worldwide, his Magazine covers have been distributed in over 50 countries. In 2015, he published a retrospective “Tattoo Super Models” (Goliath Books) and has focused the last three years photographing the most beautiful tattoo models from around the world, for this book.

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    About Goliath Books:

    Within almost 15 years in business, Goliath has established itself as a highly acclaimed publisher of diverse and often daring photography and art books unafraid to introduce controversial, erotic and subcultural perspectives to modern life.

  • Little Swastika Book

    Written by

    Shannon Larratt

    Marc, better known as Little Swastika, is an avant garde tattoo artist that’s a leader in the new worlds of dotwork, geometry, “trash” tattooing, neotribal spiritualism and fine art tattooing. He has just released a limited edition book of paintings and sketches done between 2005 and 2009. It is 108 pages long, printed in a limited hand-numbered and signed edition of 108 copies, and costs 108 euro (about $140 USD). This is a must-have for any tattoo studio — it’s not flash, but it’s a wonderful design resource — or tattoo artist interested in this style as well as art collectors. You can click below to take a closer look, or visit little-swastika.com to find out how to get your own copy of this incredibly special book.

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    Marc’s work has been featured on ModBlog ever since I first saw his work, at the time at his earlier studio Swastika Freakshop, but while I have your attention, let me show you two recent creations. On the left, and amazingly dense and manic chestpiece that somehow mix the scrawlings of a madman with ripples and spirals and sacred geometry, and on the left, an evocative backpiece in dripping in saturated full color, with multiple layers of both scribbled block printing and Marc’s highly stylized and very recognizable red script. If you enjoy art tattooing, Marc is one of the best, creative and technically gifted.

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    Finally, since they have not yet been covered on ModBlog, I want to give coverage to Marc’s work with double backpieces. Marc’s art is sometimes so big and powerful that it takes more than one person to contain it, as he splashes his striking visions across friends and families. Here are three examples of multi-person tattoos that he’s performed, as well as a shot of him working on laying down a stencil on two of his latest subjects. I love all of these (even though the one in the top row does cover up a BME logo!).

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    Again, you can find Marc online at little-swastika.com, or click here to see a collection of ModBlog entries of his work. I just spent a few minutes going through it myself and found lots of wonderful pieces that had slipped my memory — his portfolio is beyond incredible. Have I mentioned what a fan I am? Finally you can also track him down on Facebook at facebook.com/tattoingisdeath. There are very few artists who I whole-heartedly endorse. Marc is one of them.

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