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Modern Primitives (book)
''Modern Primitives'', written by V. Vale and Andrea Juno, is a RE/Search publications book about body modification, published in 1989. The book consists of a collection of twenty two interviews and two essays with individuals and key figures involved the field of body modification in the late 1980s. It was one of the first documents to attempt to comprehensively cover the re-emergence and increasing popularity of tattooing, piercing, scarification, corsetry, sideshow, ritual and other practices in contemporary western society. Influence At the time of its publication, ''Modern Primitives'' was the first text to attempt to comprehensively address the issues, aesthetics and meaning involved in the subject of body modification. The public knowledge of the term Modern Primitive is primarily due to the widespread popularity of this book. Many of the images in the book would have been familiar to persons involved in the movement, but the book exposed several "underground" practices to ...
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Andrea Juno
Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that refers to man as opposed to woman (whereas ''man'' in the sense of ''human being'' is ἄνθρωπος, ''ánthropos''). The original male Greek name, ''Andréas'', represents the hypocoristic, with endearment functions, of male Greek names composed with the ''andr-'' prefix, like Androgeos (''man of the earth''), Androcles (''man of glory''), Andronikos (''man of victory''). In the year 2006, it was the third most popular name in Italy with 3.1% of newborns. It is one of the Italian male names ending in ''a'', with others being Elia (Elias), Enea (Aeneas), Luca ( Lucas), Mattia ( Matthias), Nicola ( Nicholas), Tobia (Tobias). In recent and past times it has also been used on occasion as a female name in Italy and in Spain, where it is c ...
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BME (website)
''Body Modification Ezine'' (''BME'') is an online magazine devoted to body modification, noted for its coverage of the extreme and fringes of body modification and erotic body play. History and content ''BME'' was started as a web site hosted at Internex Online on December 6, 1994, by Shannon Larratt and was the first body modification website. BME was expanded in 2000 by the addition of ''IAM.BMEzine'', an online community, which hosts blogs specifically for members of the body-modification community. In late 2005, BME added both a video sister site, ''BMEvideo'' and a body modification blog, ''Modblog.BMEzine.com''. The site often publishes hoax articles each year on April Fools' Day. Both Shannon and Rachel Larratt have cameo appearances in the Kevin Smith feature ''Clerks II''. On May 14, 2008, Shannon Larratt posted onto ModBlog that he would no longer be an employee of BME. On March 15, 2013, it was announced that the founder of the site, Shannon Larratt, had die ...
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Jim Ward (body Piercer)
James Mark Ward (born June 28, 1941) is an American body piercer. In a 2004 documentary, entitled ''The Social History of Piercing'', MTV called him "the granddaddy of the modern body piercing movement."Chesler, Jessica (2003). ''The Social History of Piercing.'' MTV NEWS Early years Ward was born in 1941 in Western Oklahoma and moved to Colorado when he was eleven. In 1967, in New York he joined the New York Motorbike Club, a gay S&M group, and experimented with nipple piercing. During this time he also studied jewelry making. Ward then moved to Colorado, where he joined the gay Rocky Mountaineer Motorcycle Club and further experimented with piercing, genital in particular. In 1973, Ward moved to West Hollywood (a gay village of Los Angeles) where he met Doug Malloy. Together they developed the basic techniques and equipment that have become piercing industry standard. Innovations Ward pioneered many jewelry designs including the fixed bead ring and internally threaded barbell ...
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Greg Kulz
Greg Kulz (born 1963) is an American tattoo artist. He is based in San Francisco, California. Biography Greg Kulz grew up in Fallsburg, New York and Florence, Italy. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute. He helped pioneer the modern primitive Modern primitives or urban primitives are people in developed, or modern nations who engage in body modification rituals and practices inspired by the ceremonies, rites of passage, or bodily ornamentation in what they consider traditional cultu ... movement. He is one of the first tattoo artists to specialize in biomechanical tattooing. He is also known for pioneering the tattoo inks that glow in a dark light and the ones that glow in the dark. He became famous through being featured in V. Vale and Andrea Juno's book '' Modern Primitives''. References External links Official website (archive)* * Living people 1963 births American tattoo artists People from Fallsburg, New York San Francisco Art Institute alumni ...
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Henk Schiffmacher
Hendrikus Johannes Everhardus "Henk" Schiffmacher (born 22 March 1952), also known as Hanky Panky, is a Dutch tattoo artist. He is considered an expert within the field of body decoration, having curated exhibitions, written books, and presented television shows on the subject. Schiffmacher has claimed members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam, as well as Motörhead frontman Lemmy, to be amongst his clients. RHCP frontman Anthony Kiedis once described Schiffmacher as "an underground philosopher, artist, Hell's Angels associate, booze hound, drug hound, girl hound, an absolute rapscallion of Dutch proportions." Biography Born in Harderwijk, Gelderland, Schiffmacher displayed a talent and love for drawing at an early age. In the early 1970s, he studied at the Reclame School REX in Amsterdam. Following stints in various jobs, including employment by ''Nieuwe Revu'' as a photographer, Schiffmacher decided to travel. During his travels, Schiffmacher became fascinated by the s ...
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Monte Cazazza
Monte Cazazza is an American artist and composer best known for his seminal role in helping shape industrial music through recordings with the London-based Industrial Records in the mid-1970s. Career Cazazza, based primarily in San Francisco during his early career, is credited with coining the phrase "Industrial Music for Industrial People". This was later used to encapsulate the record label and the artists representing it. Later, the noise collages and experimental sound manipulation coming out of Industrial Records came to be known as industrial music. Cazazza had built up an underground reputation as a particularly volatile performer with a potentially dangerous and antisocial aesthetic. Re/Search Magazine's ''Industrial Culture Handbook'' described his work as "insanity-outbreaks thinly disguised as art events". The Futurist Sintesi show near the end of 1975 was heralded on a promo flier as "Sex - religious show; giant statue of Jesus got chainsawed and gang raped into ...
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Vyvyn Lazonga
Vyvyn Lazonga is a tattoo artist who began her career in Seattle in the early 1970s and was trained by Danny Danzl. She was the first woman to work for herself in the industry, not her husband or another male shop owner. She worked in San Francisco and was tattooed by Ed Hardy in the 70s. She won the award for Best Tattooed Female in 1978 for his work. Later she was fortunate enough to meet Horiyoshi II at one of Lyle Tuttle Lyle Gilbert Tuttle (October 7, 1931 – March 26, 2019) was an American tattoo artist and historian of the medium, who had been tattooing since 1949. He tattooed Janis Joplin, Cher, Jo Baker, Paul Stanley, Jeff Scranton, and many other American ...'s parties before returning in 1989 to open her studio in Seattle. She has advocated the use of tattoos to cover mastectomy scars as an aid to recovery. Historical significance When she began tattooing, there were very few women who had tattoos, not to mention who were working as tattoo artists. When she ope ...
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Lyle Tuttle
Lyle Gilbert Tuttle (October 7, 1931 – March 26, 2019) was an American tattoo artist and historian of the medium, who had been tattooing since 1949. He tattooed Janis Joplin, Cher, Jo Baker, Paul Stanley, Jeff Scranton, and many other American musicians, actors, and celebrities. Early life Tuttle was born in Chariton, Iowa on October 7, 1931 and grew up in Ukiah, California. He described his parents as "conservative Iowa farmers, living in California, but they really allowed me to have my own head." At the age of fourteen on a trip to San Francisco, he purchased his first tattoo for $3.50 (equivalent to $ today) of a heart with the word “Mother” after seeing it on the shop wall. Career In 1949, he began tattooing professionally. In 1954 he opened his own studio in San Francisco; this first shop was open for 35 years. Tuttle tattooed Janis Joplin, Cher, Jo Baker, the Allman Brothers, Peter Fonda, and Paul Stanley, among others. He did work on all seven continents, was tatt ...
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Sheree Rose
Sheree Rose (born 1941) is an American photographer and performance artist. She is best known for her collaborative work with performance artist Bob Flanagan, and her photography documenting a wide range of Los Angeles subcultures, especially in relation to BDSM and body modification. Early life Rose was raised in a Jewish family in Los Angeles. She was married in 1964, and she and her first husband both worked as teachers. In the 1970s, after divorcing, she earned a master's degree at California State University, Northridge and became active in socialist feminism, consciousness-raising groups, and the punk scene. Career Rose used photography to document the subcultures she participated in, and was the primary photographer at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, Los Angeles, where her photographic subjects included Exene Cervenka and John Doe of X, Dennis Cooper, Ed Smith, Amy Gerstler, and David Trinidad. Rose met Bob Flanagan in 1980, and the two began a re ...
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Leo Zulueta
Leo Zulueta is an American tattoo artist. He is known as the "father of modern tribal tattooing." Biography Leo Zulueta was born in 1952 in a naval hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. He was born into a Roman Catholic Filipino American family. Zulueta spent his early years on the island of Oahu in Hawaii and in San Diego, California. He attended San Diego State College in 1970, where he studied arts and crafts. During the 1970s he began to explore his interest in Bornean traditional tattooing. In 1976 he met tattoo artist Don Ed Hardy, who encouraged him to become a tattooist. Zulueta started tattooing professionally in 1981. Zulueta's style of neo- tribal tattooing has been influential to other tattoo artists. In 1989, he was featured in the RE/Search publication '' Modern Primitives''. In 1992, Zulueta founded Black Wave Tattoo in Los Angeles, California, which he sold in 2000. In 2007, he was featured on TLC's ''Tattoo Wars'' with his protégé Rory Keating. Zulueta currently ...
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Don Ed Hardy
Don Ed Hardy (born 1945) is an American tattoo artist known for his tattoos, strong influence on the development of modern tattoo styles, and his eponymous apparel and accessories brand. Early life Hardy was born on January 5, 1945, in Des Moines, Iowa. He grew up in Corona del Mar, in Newport Beach, California. As a preteen a young Ed Hardy was interested in tattoos: one of his friends' fathers had Army tattoos, and it intrigued him so much that he took pens and colored pencils to draw on other neighborhood kids. Hardy also credits his mother, who supported his work and encouraged him to follow his passions. Hardy had his first art exhibit at the Laguna Beach Art Festival after graduating from high school. He attended the San Francisco Art Institute and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking. While there, Hardy learned drawing from Joan Brown, etching from Gordon Cook, and sculpting from Manuel Neri. He was later offered a full scholarship and graduate position f ...
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