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Pepe & Mina Von B

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Alessandro Negrini (a.k.a. Pepe) has been tattooing since 1996, opening his first studio in Viareggio in 2001, and has gone on to establish the new "Elctric Tattooing Viareggio" in 2017. He has returned to painting in 2014, and to watercolour in particular, which he had abandoned following his studies at Belle Arti to devote himself entirely to the art of tattoos. Romina Bicicchi (a.k.a. Mina Von B) is a professional editor/translator and a philosophical writer. She graduated in Philosophy at the University of Pisa and in Publishing at the University of Florence. She is the author of Filosofia 3 (2008), Freud (2009), Nietzsche (2009), Vivere con filosofia (2010), Tattoo Portraits (2015), Il divino giullare: un genio di nome Fo (2016).
Doc Webb, watercolor by Pepe
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Tattoo Portraits: “Doc” Webb

  • 8 months ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
“I have been tattooing over 40 years. Originally, I was a commercial artist working for the Fox West Coast Theaters. I also worked for the arcades doing signs with comic…
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Christian Warlich
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Tattoo Portraits: Christian Warlich

  • 9 months ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Christian Warlich was born in 1890 and he was considered the “King of the tattoo artists”. During his lifetime, Warlich was held to be the greatest tattoo artist in Germany…
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Gus and Maud Wagner
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Tattoo Portraits: Gus+Maud Wagner “Wagners Tattooists”

  • 10 months ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
August “Gus” Wagner was a tattoo artist and performer. “World’s Champion Hand Tattoo Artist and Tattooed Man”, was one of the most exuberant figures in the history of American popular…
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Charlie Wagner
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Tattoo portraits: Charlie Wagner

  • 11 months ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Charlie Wagner is one of America’s great tattoo legends and he tattooed in New York City from the 1890s until his death in 1953. Working on the Bowery in lower…
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Tattoo Jack, watercolour by Pepe
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Tattoo portraits: Tattoo Jack

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Darwin "Huck" Spaulding via Pinterest
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Tattoo portraits: Darwin “Huck” Spaulding

  • 1 year ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Born on December 5, 1928, Darwin “Huck” Spaulding, lived in the Voorheesville area, NY, for many years. He was a veteran of the US Merchant Marines and the US Army,…
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Bill Skuse, watercolour by Pepe
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Janet Field & Bill Skuse “Bill & Rusty Skuse”

  • 1 year ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Born in Janet Field on December 20, 1943, Rusty Skuse was nicknamed that way because of her hair coloring, and from 1970 to 1990 she retained the “Guinness World Record”…
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Les Skuse
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Tattoo portraits: Les Skuse

  • 1 year ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Born in 1912, Les Skuse, lived and died in the port town of Bristol, England. He became the town’s most famous tattoo expert and was almost as well known on…
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Hanky Panky by Zozios, picture published in the book “Meeting the Masters”
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Tattoo portraits: Henk Schiffmacher “Hanky Panky”

  • 1 year ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Hendrikus Johannes Everhardus “Henk” Schiffmacher is a tattoo artist, painter, writer, collector, world traveler. Born in 1952 in Harderwijk and grown up in a catholic butcher’s family, Schiffmacher displayed talent…
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Al Schiefley
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Tattoo portraits: Al Schiefley

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Leonard Stoney St Clair, watercolour by Pepe
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Tattoo portraits: Leonard “Stoney” St. Clair

  • 1 year ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Mister St. Clair was born 1912 in Bluefield, West Virginia. Stoney tattooed out of a wheelchair, a “struggle-buggy” as he called it. He had been in that chair for all…
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Bob Shaw, picture via Pinterest
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Tattoo portraits: Bob Shaw

  • 1 year ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Bob Shaw was a tattooist who, at the age of sixteen, had a full set of sleeves from Bert Grimm. Bob learned the art of tattooing from Bert, after getting…
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Paul Rogers
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Tattoo portraits: Paul Rogers

  • 2 years ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Paul Rogers was born in 1905, in North Carolina. He spent much of his childhood moving from one cotton town to the next, as the family sought employment in the…
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Cindy Ray
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Tattoo portraits: Bev Robinson “Cindy Ray”

  • 2 years ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
The Story of a Tattooed Girl was the title of Cindy Ray’s first book. Back in the 60’s this was big news: a tattooed woman finally published her story about…
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Cliff Raven, water-colour by Pepe
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Tattoo portraits: Cliff Raven

  • 2 years ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Cliff Raven Ingram was born in a little town outside Chicago on August 24, 1932. He was one of a handful of tattoo artists (along with Sailor Jerry Collins and…
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Tony Polito, Watercolour by Pepe
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Tattoo portraits: Tony Polito

  • 2 years ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Tony Polito is a Brooklyn tattooer that has been tattooing since 1959. Tony was at one point during the early 70’s, the only operating tattooer in all of NYC. For…
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Zeke Owen
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Tattoo portraits: Zeke Owen “Tattoo Zeke”

  • 2 years ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Zeke Owen, or, as he is better known, “Tattoo Zeke”, was born in 1940 and was the first person to re-open tattooing in Guam, since his uncle, Ernie Sutton, opened…
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Samuel O'Reilly, Watercolour by Pepe
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Tattoo portraits: Samuel O’Reilly

  • 2 years ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
In 1891 Samuel O’Reilly revolutionized tattooing with his invention of the electric tattoo machine. He opened a tattoo studio at 11 Chatham Square, in the Chinatown area of the Bowery,…
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Lee Roy Minugh, Watercolour by Pepe
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Tattoo portraits: Lee Roy Minugh

  • 2 years ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Lee Roy Minugh was a tattooist, Baptist Preacher and Mason who made his name in the tattoo business during the 1950’s at the Pike, where he also worked with the…
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Pat Martynuik, watercolour by Pepe
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Tattoo portraits: Pat Martynuik “The Picture Machine”

  • 2 years ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Pat was a native of Vancouver, Canada. He started tattooing as a hobby, picking up pointers from the resident Vancouver tattooist Doc Forbes and his friend of many years, Huck…
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Mike Malone, watercolour-by Pepe
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Tattoo portraits: Mike Malone

  • 2 years ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Mike Malone led one of those lives that you read about in books. Mike was born in California and after high school he studied ceramics, learned carpentry, became a licensed…
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Tattoo by Sutherland Macdonald, photo National Maritime Museum Cornwall
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Tattoo portraits: Sutherland Macdonald

  • 2 years ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Sutherland Macdonald was considered by many to be one of the greatest artists in the history of tattooing. It is said that his first exposure to tattooing was in the…
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Jock Liddell “Tattoo Jock”, watercolour by Pepe
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Tattoo portraits: Jock Liddell “Tattoo Jock”

  • 2 years ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
Jock Liddel, better known as “Tattoo Jock”, first began tattooing in his native Scotland at a time when there were only a couple of tattoo artists working there – with…
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Felix Leu watercolour by Pepe
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Tattoo portraits: Felix Leu “Don Feliz”

  • 2 years ago
  • Pepe & Mina Von B
In 1978 Felix Leu started his tattooing career at “Jocks Tattoo Studio” in Kings Cross, London, England. Felix went on to recall that it was after a chance meeting with…
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