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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221222003
Shaping : EPUB3
DRM : Watermark (Tatouage numérique)
Tattoos are our Story

Release date : 03/01/2019
An inspired and inspiring book on tattoos, as beautiful as it is captivating.
“The real people whose tattoo stories are collected here don’t know each other and will never know each other, yet they have all taken the same trip, the same odyssey. A passage between what you are no longer and what you become. And, in this act, there is always the... “The real people whose tattoo stories are collected here don’t know each other and will never know each other, yet they have all taken the same trip, the same odyssey. A passage between what you are no longer and what you become. And, in this act, there is always the dead and the living, the past and the present. All the stories are true, all of the people existed and do exist. This book tells no lies because it pays homage to the skin’s depth and summons the energy lying dormant within us. And each person awakens a new story from under their skin, without even knowing it.” Héloïse Guay de Bellissen’s passion for tattoos runs deep, ever since she was fascinated as a child by the vision of a tattooed woman in her village. Today, while her own body bears numerous pictures and inscriptions, as a writer she questions the meaning, aesthetics, and impact of this phenomenon. In her husband’s tattoo parlor, she observes funny, touching, and intriguing scenes, and writes here of her encounters, interspersed with her own experiences and other stories collected from all over the world and every er A fireman who only masters fire after he has a dragon drawn on his body, a former prisoner who wants to remove a swastika he had tattooed in prison, a veteran from the war in Afghanistan who turned his body into a monument to the dead and asked his son to continue the work on his own body when there’s no more room, a desperate person who wakes up with a tattoo on his face after a drunken night with some sailors, a fan of France’s Johnny Hallyday transformed by the portrait of his idol engraved on his skin, and a young American pioneer who had her face tattooed by Native American who captivated her then adopted her before she returned to “civilization.” To dig deep into the meaning of the ancestral art of tattoos, Héloïse Guay de Bellissen also allows the body, the skin, the scars, the symbols, and the tattoo machine to speak. This magnificent, visionary text enters the body and mind like overpowering music, at once soft and piercing, capable of taking us to the darkest and more mysterious corners of writing before suddenly carrying us away to a place of beauty. 
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EAN : 9782221222003
Shaping : EPUB3
DRM : Watermark (Tatouage numérique)
Robert Laffont