Modern Primitives - Re/Search 1989

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Modern Primitives is still called "the bible of the tattooing-piercing underground." Here is a celebratory reprinting, complete with a new introduction by original editor/publisher V. Vale.
Interviews with 15 tattoo and body modification artists. Modern Primitives examines a vivid contemporary enigma: the growing revival of highly visual (and sometimes shocking) "primitive" body modification practices – tattooing, multiple piercing, and scarification.

Fakir Musafar
Don Ed Hardy
Anton LaVey
Leo Zulueta
Sheree Rose
Lyle Tuttle
Vyvyn Lazonga
Monte Cazazza
Hanky Panky
Greg Kulz
Jim Ward
Genesis and Paula P-Orridge


Wikipedia:
Modern Primitives, written by V. Vale and Andrea Juno, is a RE/Search publications book about body modification, published in 1989. The book consists of a collection of twenty two interviews and two essays with individuals and key figures involved in the field of body modification in the late 1980s. It was one of the first documents to attempt to comprehensively cover the re-emergence and increasing popularity of tattooing, piercing, scarification, corsetry, sideshow, ritual and other practices in contemporary western society.
Modern Primitives

Authors
V. Vale, Andrea Juno
Subjects
Body modification, Cultural studies, Social Anthropology
Publisher
RE/Search
Publication date
1989
Publication place
United States
Media type
Print
Pages
212
ISBN
978-0-940642-14-0
OCLC
20973712
Dewey Decimal
391/.65 20
LC Class
GT2343 .M63 1989
Influence
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At the time of its publication, Modern Primitives was the first text to attempt to comprehensively address the issues, aesthetics and meaning involved in the subject of body modification. The public knowledge of the term Modern Primitive is primarily due to the widespread popularity of this book.[1][2] of the images in the book would have been familiar to persons involved in the movement, but the book exposed several "underground" practices to a vastly greater public, including graphic images of genital piercing and genital bisection and scarification. The book also advanced numerous urban legends regarding the history and origin of body piercing, which remain widespread to this day, most notably Doug Malloy (Richard Simonton)'s invented origins of various piercings.[3][4]
The book was the subject of an obscenity trial in England. In November 1989, police seized a copy of Moderns Primitives from London store The Book Inn, owned by bookseller Richard Waller. Magistrate Ian Baker ruled in 1991 that the book was not obscene. This was part of a pattern of prosecution at the time, coming shortly after Operation Spanner, which targeted practitioners of sadomasochism; one of the Spanner defendants, Anthony Oversby, had photos of piercings and tattoos he had done in Modern Primitives.[5]