| Tahiti Tattoos | 
| Creators: Raymond Graffe, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Michael Tournier
Publisher: Taschen
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 751320
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Special Value
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.4
Dimensions (in): 12.9 x 10.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 3822877638
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783822877630
ASIN: 3822877638
Publication Date: February 1, 1998
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Product Description
Gian Paolo Barbieri's photgraphs of the tattooed people of Tahiti provide a record of an unspoken Polynesian language left on the skin of the people.
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 Tahiti Beefcake May 22, 2006
SereneNight (California, USA)
I'm an artist,alright? I bought this book for the tattoos....Yeah...Really! Just joking. Frankly, this is a nice photo book featuring pictures of hot looking Tahitian men in next to nothing. There are guys swimming, catching fish, and just hanging out. Sure there are few women in these pictures but frankly given the amount of cheescake out there, there are plenty of books you can buy if you want to look at hot tattooed women.
I particularly like the photos towards the end in the water, and the photos with more than one guy in it are twice as cool. This book has an honored place in my art reference section. It gets 5 stars from me for the sheer hotness factor of the men.
5 stars
Tahiti Tatoos March 12, 2002
D. Coles (Ewa Beach, HI USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The book is quite beautifully done in a sepia coloring with artfully done photography of tatoos with a narrative of the history of tatoos throughout Tahiti and Polynesia
Tahitian art September 3, 2001
Emma Howard (Kailua, HI , USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The "Robinet D'Amour" tattoo is so witty and amusing.There are some good line drawings for references to study. Page 112 does show that the tattoos were painted on and washing off in the ocean. Aloha!
 quite disappointed January 14, 2001
Ricardo Landim (Brasília, DF Brazil)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book is good but I got disappointed with some pictures. The reason is that some of those polynesian guys arent really tattooed - those tattoos are FAKE. Pay attention and you'll see some of their designs being erased by the water. So many tattooed people there and he author decided to pick a non-tattooed guy to draw some fake tattoos just to take his pictures, probably because he found those guys handsome. What a shame.
 extremely helpful February 2, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased this book for a cultural anthropology class I took last semester. After examining the work, I then decided to use it as a source for a paper, in which I received an "A." The photographs of tattoos were both visually stimulating and inspiring, yet females should be included as a comparison for tattoo styles. Equal photographs (or any at all) of women's tattoos would indeed be a great help, and a joy to admire.
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