All of Me Is Illustrated is the first book to feature Ray Bradbury’s treasured stories “The Illustrated Man” and “The Illustrated Woman” together alongside the most stunning tattooed bodies of today. Bradbury’s prose reminds us so wonderfully — and at times violently and humorously — how foolish it is to assume the origins and meanings behind a person’s tattoos. Just as with Bradbury’s characters, the motivations of the featured collectors and artists to ink (or be inked) vary. What is undeniable is that their illustrated bodies are a source of pride, wonder, titillation, and beauty, whether depicting the grotesque or the mundane.
“At the end of a long afternoon of being bitten by a silver snake, his body was alive with portraiture. He looked as if he had dropped and been crushed between the steel rollers of a print press, and come out like an incredible rotogravure. He was clothed in a garment of trolls and scarlet dinosaurs.”
—Ray Bradbury, from “The Illustrated Man”
Photographs of renowned tattoo artists and their intricate living pieces are breathtaking companions to Bradbury’s illuminating tales of relationships upended or enriched by the ancient art form. Featured artists include Jessa Bigelow, Paul Booth, Steve Butcher, Ryan Ashley Malarkey, Yomico Moreno, Andy Pho, TeeJ Poole, Duke Riley, DJ Tambe, Tatu Baby, Carlos Torres, Dmitry Troshin, Jess Yen, Popo Zhang. With an introduction by tattoo collector and scholar Anna Felicity Friedman, the result is a book that showcases masters of their craft.
All of Me Is Illustrated is directed and produced by Lawrence Schiller in cooperation with Inked magazine, and its editor Sami Hajar and photographer Peter Roessler. Schiller, the noted photographer, filmmaker, and author, is also the publisher/creator of such groundbreaking visual books as LSD (1969), W. Eugene Smith’s Minamata (1975), and Norman Mailer’s Marilyn (1972), which sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. In 1974 he arranged for the publication of The Faith of Graffiti, the first book to capture the burgeoning art movement—and was “like a bible to later graffiti artists,” according to Brian Wallis, chief curator at New York's International Center of Photography.
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