11” x 12 1/2” Hard Cover
 
Vintage Tattoo Flash is one-of-a-kind visual exploration of the history and evolution of tattooing in America. A luscious, offset-printed, hardcover tome—a beautiful and serious addition to the understanding of one of the worlds oldest and most popular art forms.

Vintage Tattoo Flash draws from the personal collection of Johnathan Shaw—renowned outlaw tattooist and author—and represents a selection of over 300 pieces of flash from one of the largest private collections in existence. Vintage Tattoo Flash spans the first roughly 75 years of American tattooing from the 1900s Bowery, to 50s Texas, though the pike in the 60s and the development of the first black and grey, single-needle tattooing in LA in the 70s. The book lovingly reproduces entirely unpublished sheets of original flash from the likes of Bob Shaw, Zeke Owen, Tex Rowe, Ted Inman, Ace Harlan, Ed Smith, Paul Rogers, the Moskowitz brothers and many, many others relatively known and unknown.