The Mingins Photo Collection 1288 Pictures of Early Western Tattooing
from the Henk Schiffmacher Collection
ATM Publishing
ATM Publishing Mauritskade 63 Post Box 95001 1090 HA Amsterdam E-mail: publishers@kit.nl www.kitpublishers.nl ATM Publishing is an imprint of KIT Publishers (Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam) Text: © Arlette Kouwenhoven Translation and text editing: Mark Poysden Design: Erika Madenszki and Nel Punt Production: Hightrade BV, Zwolle © November 2011 ATM Publishing – Amsterdam/Henk Schiffmacher ISBN 978-9491394010
ATM Publishing is the official publisher of the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum, which houses the Henk Schiffmacher Collection.
The Amsterdam Tattoo Museum aims to be a home for the art and history of worldwide skin culture. Located in two nineteenth-century villas, it houses an extensive permanent exhibition about the tattooing of yesterday, today and tomorrow in all its aspects and forms. More than a museum, this unique centre offers a variety of facilities and services, ranging from a library and research centre; seminars and lectures; working studios for travelling tattooists; temporary exhibitions; a shop selling tattoo equipment; a book, magazine and souvenir shop; a cafe/bar; meeting rooms; a tattoo travel agent; and much more. Visiting address: Plantage Middenlaan 62 1018 DH Amsterdam Tel: +31(0)20 70 09 320 E-mail: info@amsterdamtattoomuseum.com website: www.amsterdamtattoomuseum.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Dear lucky son of a bitch,
This wonderful book of photographs can be considered an introduction to the world of tattooing; it is also the first of many publications by the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum. We intend to continue enriching your book collection with high-quality publications, scrapbooks, drawings, sketches, etc., published as a series of large and small books and leaflets on legendary tattoo artists, with strange and extremely rare material. Please contact us if you think you have rare material in your collection and are willing to help us to enhance our collection of tattoo objects (be it archival material, photographs, old equipment, or whatever), but also if you would like to help to introduce our art to those who are new to our world. I would like to thank Rich Mingins’ daughter for donating this material to our institute and hope many will follow her lead. A toast to you all and in loving memory of one of world’s greatest tattoo artists: the Dean of London, the prodigy-star Rich Mingins. May the future of our museum be a long one, and may you be part of it.
Henk Schiffmacher
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