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Bernard Clark

Tattoo Portraits

by (author) Jan Allen

Publisher
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Initial publish date
Jan 2012
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781553392613
    Publish Date
    Jan 2012
    List Price
    $14

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Drawing on Bernard Clark’s success as a documentary photographer of ink culture, this publication features his composite portraits of tattooed individuals in landscape and architectural settings. In the eighteen recent works featured, Clark has digitally inserted his extraordinary subjects into surroundings that highlight the stridency of their self-definition through markings. The main essay points to the ways in which Clark’s sensitive and at times playful displacements highlight the contemporary role of the body as a refuge of stable identity and personal expression. In tandem with his award-winning work as a commercial photographer, Bernard Clark has cultivated an art practice focusing on social subcultures. Over the past decade, he has traveled widely in an exceptional project documenting skin art contributing to this surging global phenomenon. His work has been featured in magazin es such as Skin & Ink and in his 2002 book with Bob Baxter, Tattoo Road Trip: Two Weeks in Samoa.

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