Tatau: Samoan Tattoo, New Zealand Art, Global Culture – a new publication

Check out the new publication from Te Papa Press:

Tatau: Samoan Tattoo, New Zealand Art, Global Culture

Photographs by Mark Adams, with essays by Sean Mallon, Peter Brunt and Nicholas Thomas

One hundred memorable images by documentary photographer Mark Adams present a powerful and moving portraits of a great Polynesian art tradition.

Tatau also tells the story of Sulu’ape Paulo II, the pre-eminent figure of modern Samoan tattooing. Paulo was a brilliantly innovative and controversial man, who saw tatau as an art of international importance. He was killed in 1999.

Accompanying Adams’ arresting photographs are two essays, and two interviews in which Sulu’ape Paulo II and Mark Adams each articulate their understanding of their own practices.

’Paul’s nephew Jim at Paul’s house’; Te Papa; Purchased 1993 with New Zealand Lottery Grants Board funds

This entry was written by Safua Akeli, posted on 18 June 2010 at 1.34pm, filed under Collections Online, Pacific, Te Papa Press and tagged Mark Adams, Pacific, Polynesia, Samoa, tatau, tattoo. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

VINS

Posted 12 July 2010 at 4.59am | Permalink

hi,
i’m Vins from Italy,
i’d like to but the book
TATAU
how can i do it???
Safua Akeli

Posted 12 July 2010 at 10.29am | Permalink

Hi Vin,

Thank you for visiting our blog. To purchase a copy of ‘Tatau’, please click on the link below:

http://www.tepapastore.co.nz/shop_info.asp?page=1&currency=NZD&language= english&search=tatau&productid=1011705&productname=Tatau:%20Samoan%20Tat too,%20New%20Zealand%20Art,%20Global%20Culture

Best wishes Safua

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