Modern Primitives: 20th Anniversary

by V. Vale

Interviews with 15 tattoo and body modification artists. Modern Primitives examines a vivid contemporary the growing revival of highly visual (and sometimes shocking) "primitive" body modification practices – tattooing, multiple piercing, and scarification.

228 pages, Hardcover

Published July 1, 2010

About the author

Japanese-American writer and publisher. He also played keyboards for the later famous power trio Blue Cheer.

In 1977 he started to publish the punk fanzine "Search and destroy" In 1980, he began publication of RE/Search, a tabloid format zine focusing on various counterculture and underground topics.

RE/Search later became always a format for books, of which Vale is a regular contributor.

Reviews

[Brendan · Rating 5 out of 5]

An absolutely foundational work in the documentation of modern subculture.