Samuel M Steward: 1 book
Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos
A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos!
In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to become a tattoo artist (and incidentally a researcher...
