The Tattoo Writer

The Tattoo Writer is a collection of 134 black and white photographs taken by Japanese writer Akimitsu Takagi of the tattoo milieu in Tokyo in the 1950s.

Akimitsu Takagi (1920-1995) was one of the greatest Japanese crime writers of the 20th century. Crazy about tattooing, he entered this underground scene and documented it with his medium format camera. In the Japanese capital, he photographed the greatest tattoo artists of the time, their clients and their tattoos, thus constituting an archive of his time that is as rare as it is unedited.
For this edition, the photographs in the book were scanned from the original negatives. These old documents are almost 70 years old and although they arrived in an exceptional state of preservation, they have been specifically cleaned and restored.

Book release: May 2022 (sold-out). Reprinted in March 2023.
The tattoo writer is: 200 pages – 134 photographs – Bilingual English/French – Three texts (“The Tattoo Writer” by Pascal Bagot; “My Father and Tattooing” by Akiko Takagi, daughter of Akimitsu Takagi; “Tattoos and crime novels” by Gérald Peloux, specialist in Japanese popular literature).

Detalles del Producto
+ Libro importado de U.K.
+ Fecha Pub.: Marzo 2023
+ Editorial: Pascal Bagot
+ Formato: Tapa Dura, 200 páginas
+ Idioma: Bilingüe Inglés / Francés