Nordic Tattooing
John Nordstrøm

NORDIC TATTOOING er en ny historisk bok om tatovering fra forfatter og fotograf Jon Nordstrøm, utgiveren av den
omdiskuterte og kritikerroste DANISH TATTOOING.
Med sine 320 sider, gir NORDIC TATTOOING en interessant titt inn i utviklingen av tatoveringen i de nordiske land mellom 1885 og 1985. De svenske tatovørene, som var sjømenn og tatoverte nordmenn, og de danske tatovørene som samlet seg i Nyhavn og tatoverte fulle svensker er alle med i boken. Boka er full av store bilder og gode historier, og med sin flotte innbinding har boka blitt en flott gavebok.

Fra forlaget:
We start out in Nyhavn in 1890, when Gustav Bechmann had ended up in jail due to some ’irregularities’. While there, he drew up a very beautiful book of tattooing boards with the oldest tattoo sketches known in the Nordic countries. Also featured is Ink-Hans,
who in 1901 became the first tattooist at 17 Nyhavn – the world’s oldest tattoo parlour still in business today.
In Sweden, Axel Johanson marked the beginning of Swedish tattooing when he opened his shop in Gothenburg just before World War I. A few years after the war, he was forced to retire – during a dynamite blast he was hit in the face by a large rock that knocked
out one of his eyes. A couple of days passed before the doctor was able to find the rock.
Motifs were simple and small – ”faith, hope and charity”, tall ships and the Statue of Liberty were some of the motifs. The tattooist’s tools of the trade were also simple – a couple of small drawings, a little bit of ink rod and 3-4 sticks with different numbers of needles
attached was all it took to execute the simple motifs of the time.
Doc Forrest in Sweden and Tattoo Svend and Roxy Helle in Denmark were the tattooists who broke with the ’old school’ in the 70s – large tattoos, new techniques and curious tattooists who could draw would be the end of the good old days. More than 200 of the book’s pages show beautiful reproductions of the tattooists’ original drawings through 100 years.

Bokinfo:
Helbind
320 sider
Format: 240 x 240 mm
Forlag: Nordstroms Forlag
ISBN 9788799315024