BERNARD CLARK. TATTO PORTRAITS

Drawing on Bernard Clark's success as a documentary photographer of ink culture, this publication features his composite portraits o f tattooed individuals in landscape and architectural settings. In the eighteen recent works featured, Clark has digitally inserted his extraordinary subjects into surroundings that highlight the stridency of their self-definition through markings. Jan Allen's ess ay points to the ways in which Clark's sensitive and at times playful displacements highlight the contemporary role of the body as a refuge o...[Read more]