History

"Humans have marked their bodies with tattoos for thousands of years. These permanent designs—sometimes plain, sometimes elaborate, always personal—have served as amulets, status symbols, declarations of love, signs of religious beliefs, adornments and even forms of punishment."- Joann Fletcher
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/tattoo.html

"Tattoos have not only marked rebels but have also communicated clan membership, religious or tribal affiliation, social status, and marital position...and have served as markers of inclusion or exclusion. The oldest physical body in existence, the so-called Ice Man (ca. 3300-3200 B.C.) is remarkable not only because his 57 tattoos perhaps were used for medicinal purposes, but because this oldest human skin ever found is itself tattooed. Considering the large number of tattooed mummies found around the globe, tattooing was apparently widely practiced in the ancient world . Ancient, mysterious, and powerful, tattoos still hold a critical place in the modern world."- Margo Demello

http://www.randomhistory.com/2008/07/26_tattoo.html

“the mainstreaming of the tattoo has produced a number of outstanding artists who have developed their own styles and are documenting their own history” -Diana Lien

http://www.dianalien.com/blog/thesis-more-than-skin-deep-tattoo-aesthetics-in-design-culture/

"Photography can put a human face on a situation that would otherwise remain abstract or merely statistical.
Photography can become part of our collective consciousness and our collective conscience. It is a way to
remember history and to try not to relive the mistakes of the past".
James Nachtwey. 

 http://www.karlgrobl.com/Quotes.htm

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I am giving bibliography of several things I read talking about history with tattoo's and photography.  Both photography and tattoo's have been used as a means of documenting history either for self (the beholder of the tattoo or photography) or for what is going on around you.  Both photography and tattoo's have extensive detailed history for the art form itself.  The art of tattooing has been around way longer then photography has been but noth have extensive history's.  People use both means to document to remind themselves not to repeat the past.  Often used as reminders to not forget or repeat the past.  The earliest found proof of someone having a tattoo is 5200 years ago while photography has been around a little over 150 years.  Summery of it all is both art forms have a history from first found mummy with a tattoo to the invention of photography.  They are both used to record history whether it is recording the individual history or the world around them.  Each means are huge part of history without both art forms culture and life now today would be drastically different.

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This is one important subject/term for my project it correlates heavily with the the terms documentation and communication I wrote about before.  Through documentary photography (which is way of recording history) I have been taking pictures of subjects so people can see the history my subjects have tattooed on themselves.  I want them to see what is important to these subjects and why they choose to record that specific part of there history (life) on themselves.  I am using photography as my means of recording history (and the history of others) to show, even through other photographs not focused on their tattoos, what is important to this group of culture.  I am even showing completely different (from each other) people who have chosen to tattoo/document completely different things from each other on themselves. What first got my interested in this project was my fascination of people choosing to tattoo the history of their lives on themselves.  From that I used means of documenting history to show what history the subjects have chosen to document on themselves.

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My computer is not letting my upload photos at all onto blogger I dont know if it is my computer, blogger or internet I am using but I will figure it all out soon

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All the sites I have linked above I used for everything along with the sites down below.

http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/stilphotography.htm

http://clearlyexplained.com/culture/arts/photography.html

http://tattoos.com/jane/steve/toc.htm

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/tattoo.html?c=y&page=1