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A collection of tattoos made from the 1940s through to the 1970s, photographed in the 21st century across America, Europe and Australia. In a time of absolute freedom and endless variation in tattoo culture, these images stand out for their bold and simple aesthetic gestures. They are the point which all tattoos promise to reach; a blurry embodiment of the passing of time, a permanent relic. Heralding from a time when tattoos meant something vastly different from what they mean today, they document a piece of living history and an echo from the past.

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Thomas Jeppe is a Melbourne-based artist and founder of publishing house Serps Press. He holds first class honours in Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne, and is the author of Home Made Tattoos Rule (Serps Press 2006), which signalled a turning point in contemporary tattoo culture. His work has been published in numerous books and magazines, including Shoot (Rizzoli, 2009), and he has held exhibitions in Australia, Germany, Mexico and Japan.

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