Traditional Icons by Rich Hardy

“Traditional Icons by Rich Hardy” is an incredible portrait of the history of the Traditional style with sheets of flash, stencils, archive tattoos, a rare collection of vintage photographs, and the large scale tattoos that have made this Australian tattoo artist internationally renowned, becoming a fundamental point of reference for this style for many tattoo lovers, collectors and tattooists.

“Traditional Icons by Rich Hardy” is a research tool on two fronts: on the one hand we go back to the roots of everything that is Traditional today. On the other, it is a collection of pieces by Rich Hardy, a fundamental point of reference for this style for many tattoo lovers, collectors and tattooists.

Among the hundreds of tattoos collected and drawn by Rich Hardy, it is interesting to encounter some of the characters which recur so frequently in Traditional tattoo, all the classic icons which Hardy tells us about, documenting their roots and representing them in his own work: as for instance, the well-known image of Battle Royale, or the Rock of Ages and Pharaoh’s Horses.

250 pages
24x32cm