Vintage Tattoo Flash is a one-of-a-kind visual exploration of the history and evolution of tattooing in America and draws from the personal collection of Jonathan Shaw—renowned tattooist and represents a selection of over 300 pieces of flash.
Vintage Tattoo Flash spans the first roughly 75 years of American tattooing from the 1900s Bowery, to 50s Texas, through 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 The book lovingly reproduces entirely unpublished sheets of original flash from the likes of Bob Shaw, Zeke Owen, Tex Rowe, Ted Inman, Ace Harlyn, Ed Smith, Paul Rogers, the Moskowitz brothers, and many, many others relatively known and unknown.
