Friday, July 23, 2010

Robert Gumpert American Prison Tats

American Prison Tattoos is a photo story by Robert Gumpert that explores the meanings behind prisoners’ tattoos in Californian penitentiaries.

All these photos are tight as hell all my tattoos are all jailhouse tattoos meaning it wasnt done by a traditional tattoo gun it was done by a needle in a plastic lead pencil but dude got skills so you cant even tell cant argue with art!

“Tattoos may be becoming the norm but before their surge in popularity, tattoos were the province of society’s outcasts: sailors, artists, carnies and outlaws – acting as road maps of their lives: who they were, what they had done, their loves, desires, their sorrows and pains.”













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