Carol Clerk is a veteran music writer and author who has written for a number of underground newspapers and ‘zines like the weekly Melody Maker.
“It seems like everyone and their mother has been inked. Carol
Clerk’s new tome, Vintage Tattoos, The Book of Old-School Skin Art,
tracks the evolution of old-school pin-up girl pieces…as well as
classic floral, nautical, death memorials and heart designs.”
~Nylon Magazine
“We’ve read our fill about tattooed circus acts and indigenous
people, but we’ll always make time for the scalawags who
revolutionized tattoo art. The best chapters in Carol Clerk’s
Vintage Tattoos: The Book of Old-School Skin Art detail the history
of nautical and patriotic tattoos and their superstitions.” ~Inked
Magazine
"The lavishly displayed wealth of brightly colored old-school flash
is the heart of Vintage Tattoos, and the main reason you’ll find
yourself flipping through it again and again. (Clerk's) ruminations
on these designs and their cryptic meanings are enlightening."
~Playboy.com
"Vintage Tattoos is as much a tat history for tat lovers as it is
for anyone into pop culture and art. Gems of tattoo lore transport
us to the traveling circuses of the turn of the century (which
kick-started America’s tattoo fascination) and hidden backroom
parlors which popped up once state governments started banning
tattooing in the 1960s. It’s a history lesson worth its ink."
~ModernTonic.com
"Vintage Tattoos...is 256 pages of art and anecdotes. Salty stories
of tattoo times when shotguns, not art school degrees, hung on the
walls behind the parlor counter. When tattooists traveled with the
circus, not metal bands. And when the art went underground because
of tattoo bans." ~Needled.com
"...an entertaining and informative title that should be in every
tattoo enthusiast's book collection." ~Skin Art Magazine
“Somehow quaint and sexy at once, this opus of the epidermis will
stimulate smiles, winces, and perhaps more.” ~Passport Magazine
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