The art of tattooing has thousands of years of history. Already in ancient Egypt, numerous personalities of society marked his body using rudimentary instruments. Body art and tattoo as we know it today is more recent. From the invention of the modern tattoo machine to the present, it has hardly been many decades.
En Tatuantes We have dedicated different articles to talk about some of the key periods in tattoo history but it is evident that when you see the vintage tattoo pictures half a century ago (or something more) we are enveloped by a special feeling. Much has changed in the process of making and healing tattoos. However, in this article I would like to be able to look back and travel to the more recent past of the art of tattoo.
Less than a century ago, people who had almost their entire body tattooed were labeled at least as "freaks." People who traveled through different countries from fair to fair to show off their torsos and other parts of their anatomy completely covered in different tattoos. This, which may seem like something out of a book of urban legends, was true.
Today, wearing tattoos is no longer so frowned upon. Although some issues in our life may pose some kind of problem to us having a visible tattoo (although it depends on many factors), we can say that this type of body art is already accepted by a large part of the population. And it is that more and more people decide to go through a tattoo studio to capture some type of design on their body. The following gallery will allow us to travel to the past thanks to this selection of vintage tattoos photos.
