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Photography In the fall of 1982, Sandi Fellman, a young American photographer visiting Japan, began the series of color portraits in this striking volume. Her subjects were the Irezumi, a secretive group of people drawn from the underworld of Tokyo and Osaka. To meet these men and women who had chosen to have themselves transformed through tattooing into living works ofart was difficult; to gain their trust and to persuade them to bare themselves for an woman and a huge Polaroid camera was an essay in cultural contradiction. But Sandi ellman's unstinting effort has produced an extraordinary collection of photographs, which at once docu- ment a cultural phenomenon virtually unknown in the West (and in Japan as well) and reveal a tradition of artistry and dedication that knows no national boundaries. We enter through Ms. Fellman's large-format U.f ATTOO Photographs and Text SANDI FELLMAN ^ Introduction J by DM THOMAS 1 THE JAPANESE TATTOO Polaroid prints into a strange and even frighten- ing world where members of theYakuza,the Japanese equivalent of the Mafia, spend hun- dreds of thousands of yen and hundreds of hours of pain and torment being tattooed. The range of the tattoo images is varied; examples reproduced here are drawn from Japanese mythology, Kabuki theater, and extend to the lexicon of the comic bookand biker symbology. The works are executed by well-trained artists, men who have served an exacting apprentice- ship with an acknowledged master, and who will eventually inherit his clientele and his working name. Fellman notes in her text the ways in which the tattooer plays  with combinations of belief, fact nd fiction, transferring fleeting prayers into mortal permanence, disfiguring soas to adorn, and drawing equally from and the grotesque. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sandi Fellman was born and raised in the Midwest and presently lives and works in New York City. Her photographs, widely published over the past decade and exhibited throughout Europe and the United States, are to be found in numerous private and public collections, includ- ing the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Center for Creative Photography, and Bibliotheque Nationale. f? In addition to her reputa- tion as a fine art photographer, Sandi Fellman has an exten- sive commercial clientele. Her photographs have been used in many outstanding advertising campaigns and have been, reproduced hundreds of times in the pages of magazines and journals. Ms. Fellman also has been commissioned editorial- ly bya wide variety of art and general interest magazines. She is represented by the Jayne H. Baum Gallery.

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