I'm an artist,alright? I bought this book for the tattoos....Yeah...Really! Just joking. Frankly, this is a nice photo book featuring pictures of hot looking Tahitian men in next to nothing. There are guys swimming, catching fish, and just hanging out. Sure there are few women in these pictures but frankly given the amount of cheescake out there, there are plenty of books you can buy if you want to look at hot tattooed women.

I particularly like the photos towards the end in the water, and the photos with more than one guy in it are twice as cool. This book has an honored place in my art reference section. It gets 5 stars from me for the sheer hotness factor of the men.

5 stars

The book is quite beautifully done in a sepia coloring with artfully done photography of tatoos with a narrative of the history of tatoos throughout Tahiti and Polynesia

The "Robinet D'Amour" tattoo is so witty and amusing.

There are some good line drawings for references to study.

Page 112 does show that the tattoos were painted on and washing off in the ocean.

Aloha!

The book is good but I got disappointed with some pictures. The reason is that some of those polynesian guys arent really tattooed - those tattoos are FAKE. Pay attention and you'll see some of their designs being erased by the water. So many tattooed people there and he author decided to pick a non-tattooed guy to draw some fake tattoos just to take his pictures, probably because he found those guys handsome. What a shame.

I purchased this book for a cultural anthropology class I took last semester. After examining the work, I then decided to use it as a source for a paper, in which I received an "A." The photographs of tattoos were both visually stimulating and inspiring, yet females should be included as a comparison for tattoo styles. Equal photographs (or any at all) of women's tattoos would indeed be a great help, and a joy to admire.