Shawn Barber
San Francisco: 9mm Books, 2008.

“This full-color fine art book showcases a 3-year study in portraiture focused on well-known contemporary painters and tattoo artists. The paintings range from traditional representational portraits to colorful, expressionistic abstractions. Through his refined skills and modern expressionistic techniques, Shawns paintings are complex emotional responses to the subject being tattooed, the designs and tattoo artists, including Kat von D, Chuck Eldirdge, Scott Campdell, Michael Hussar, Mike Rubendall, Aaron Cain, Juan Puente, Mike Giant, Grime, Mike Davis, Paul Booth, Helen Garber, Marcus Pacheco, Jeremy Fish, Henry Lewis, Owen Smith and Tara McPherson. Forever and Ever is Shawn Barber’s second monograph of portraits. A complete in-depth study in tattoo culture through fine art drawings and paintings, this edition contains 105 drawings and paintings, numerous documentation photographs, essays and commentary by Grime, Chuck Eldrige, Paul Booth, Henry Lewis, Justin Giarla and Shawn Barber.” (publisher’s blurb)

Daniel Martino
Buenos Aires: Editorial Benja, 2013.

“Direct from Argentina and featuring 49 artists from around the world, this collection of paintings, drawings and sketches in this book covers all styles of tattooing, including Traditional, New School, Oriental, Black & Grey, Realism and more. 60+ images are shown, which can be used by other tattoo and fine artists in the process of creation for inspiration and reference, or a great starting point for any collector looking for tattoo ideas to build on.” (publisher’s blurb)

Danilo Fernandes Nascimento
Sao Paulo: A. D. Desenvolvimento Internacional, 2014.

Monograph on tattoo artist Danilo Dex.