about the book
Permanence: Tattoo Portraits by Kip Fulbeck, will be published by Chronicle Books in Spring, 2008. It will be the first book to feature portraits of tattooed individuals along with their own short handwritten stories or anecdotes about their ink. From traditional Japanese body suits to modern one-point tattoos, from store bought flash to gang tattoos, military to musical, religious to tribal to portrait to homemade. The individuals in this book share their feelings about their most personal possession, their own bodies.
The book will run 264 pages and include photographs and statements from over 100 individuals from all walks of life, as well as several in-depth interviews.
Many celebrities are included ... Slash, Kat Von D, Chuck Liddell, Evan Seinfeld, Tera Patrick, Margaret Cho, Joan Jett, Scott Ian ...
Please note that as of April 2007 the book has gone to press. Only celebrity shots can be added at this point.
about the forward
The world-renown tattooist and author Horitaka is writing the foreword. He is the proprietor of State of Grace Tattoo, the director of the San Jose Tattoo Convention, and a senior apprentice of Horiyoshi III, the most famous living Japanese tattoo master.