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“This thesis is an experimental work combining anthropology and photography in the form of a written text and photographic essay. I first discuss the practices of anthropology and photography and their usage as they developed from the 1800s to the present to place my work in context. The body of the thesis examines the rise in interest in the practice of tattooing in the United States and its implications for women. Women’s bodies serve as a site of social control through gendered appearance and idealized beauty standards. Tattooing is visual communication, written on the body, which is linked historically to deviance and remains stigmatized in the West. Tattoos on women, especially the “new” tattooing of the past ten years or so, are a form of resistance to gendered appearance standards and social control.”

Read the thesis by Melissa M. Forbis, Temple University, May 1994

Pia wrote:
“you might enjoy my photos”
I relied:
“i do
who are
you
?”
she:
“my name is pia. im 22. love in ny. go to parsons. from la. ”


And her blog is:
http://piaarrobio.com/


Pia, are you italian?

This is a found looped film stock of Croda employees in the late 40s showing off the strength of pure gelatin: How fascinating !

Ice Cream War from Ross Dalziel on Vimeo.

I’ve been listening to Bobby Beausoleil‘s soudtrack to Lucifer Rising over and over lately. It made me want to watch the movie again too, and as I was doing researches, I found out Kenneth Anger (who directed the movie) had a pretty amazing tattoo. I thought I’d share…

Here is also a video interview of him, in which he shows it off and talks about satanism (in french).