Complemented by over 150 rarely seen illustrations, Needle Work moves from coast to coast and across more than one hundred years to provide a key chapter in the history of the international emergence and development of commercial tattooing.
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- NEEDLE WORK 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- CONTENTS 6
- Acknowledgments 8
- INTRODUCTION “Not the Type of Profession You Could Pursue in a Trade School”: Understanding Commercial Tattooing 16
- 1 “What Happened in the Tattoo Shop?”: Regulation and Resilience across Canada, 1881–1989 54
- 2 Who and Where Was “Sailor Joe”? Media, Amusement, and Investigation by the FBI and RCMP, 1887–1981 102
- 3 “Samples Can Be Seen on the Premises”: Changing Spaces in Victoria and Vancouver, 1891–1983 154
- 4 “To Heighten the Effect”: Relations between Visual Art and Tattooing in Halifax, 1894–1979 210
- 5 “An Artist’s View of Tattooing”: Aba Bayefsky in Toronto and Japan, 1970–1995 268
- EPILOGUE “Everybody Is the Type”: Tattoo Conventions and a Century of Commercial Tattooing in Canada 306
- Figures 318
- Notes 326
- Bibliography 380
- Index 408
