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THE FOREFATHERS OF TATTOOING | “CAP” COLEMAN & PAUL ROGERS
Franklin Paul Rogers tattooing a sailor ~ ca. 1940s.
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Staged photo of Clarence Decker (left) used by Norman Rockwell for 1944′s The Tattooist.
“Clarence didn’t have a single tattoo in real life. Also the last name on his arm is Betty– that’s because my great, great aunt Belle told Norman that if he put her name in the painting, she wouldn’t speak to him ever again. So Norman crossed the L’s and added a Y.” -Ross Mosher, the great, great nephew of Clarence Decker
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PHOTOGRAPHY OF DOROTHEA LANGE
Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California atop car with her giant camera. February 1936.
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PHOTOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM GEDNEY
Man driving car and drinking can of beer. Kentucky, 1972. William Gedney Photographs and Writings Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/
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PHOTOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM GEDNEY
Two girls with dirty clothes holding hands. Kentucky, 1964. William Gedney Photographs and Writings Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/
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PHOTOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM GEDNEY
Boy covered by dirt smoking cigarette with one hand, holding can of tobacco in other. Kentucky, 1964. William Gedney Photographs and Writings Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/
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LET ME WIN YOUR HEART AND MIND, OR I’LL BURN YOUR GODDAMN HUT DOWN
There is no gravity, the world sucks.
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THE FOREFATHERS OF TATTOOING
The Legendary August “Cap” Coleman’s Tattoo parlor in Norfolk, Virginia —1936. photo by William T. Radcliffe © The Mariners’ Museum/Corbis
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THE TATTOOOIST, CIRCA 1944
Staged photo of Clarence Decker (left) used by Norman Rockwell for 1944′s The Tattooist.
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