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In 1964, at age 73, Dietzel sold his shop to his friend and collaborator Gib "Tatts" Thomas. [2] [18] In February 1967, Thomas said that he and Dietzel had "covered more people for exhibition than any two people in the United States", but that few people wanted to become tattooed sideshow performers anymore; most of their recent customers were sailors or businessmen. [19]
She was considered to be "America's Tattoo Godmother" since, starting in 1971, she had shaped the tattoo industry and had the longest career of any other female tattoo artist in the USA. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 7 ] She was passionate about preserving tattoo history as shown by how she frequently visited tattoo conventions, mentored younger tattoo ...
Between the 1950s-1970s, females in the tattoo industry were very scarce. Women only gained acceptance into tattoo shops if they were dating or married to one of the tattoo artists. In the early 1970s, Jacci Gresham became a pioneer of female tattoo artists who helped pave the way for the rise of other female artists entering the industry. [6]
Karen Cynthia “KC” Fox, an Emmy-nominated set decorator and founding member of the Set Decorators Society of America, died from pancreatic cancer on Aug. 28 at her Los Angeles home. She was 70.
Ink Master star Ryan Hadley has died at age 46 after battling cancer. The news was confirmed on Friday, June 21, via Hadley’s Instagram account almost one month after the tattoo artist revealed ...
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Amazon PrimeRest easy, Lord of the Rings fans, because our long, hair-raising nightmare is over: After months of uncertainty, everyone can ...
This is a list of notable tattoo artists.. Betty Broadbent, 1938 Amund Dietzel, 1914 Mary Jane Haake, 2011 Don Ed Hardy, 1980 Horiyoshi III, 2010 Manfred Kohrs, 2016 Whang-od, 2016 Kim Saigh, 2007 Henk Schiffmacher, 2018 Horst Streckenbach, 1979 Paul Timman, 2009 Lyle Tuttle, 2007 Lokesh Verma, 2021 Kat Von D, 2007 Maud Wagner, c. 1907 Leo Zulueta, 2019
Jean Rather, an artist and wife of the longtime CBS news anchor Dan Rather, has died. She was 89. The news was announced by her family in a statement posted on social media. “Today is the ...