Immersing a rare detailed in the art of Moroccan Berber tattooing, "Berber Tattooing" is a unique testimony and the result of a series of chance encounters scattered in a story of adventures lived by a family well known in the Tattoo community. A story of Felix and Loretta Leu's journey in 1988, about thirty years ago in a rural and intimate world of Berber tribal women.
In 1988, when the Leu family first set foot in the Moroccan Atlas, they were welcomed by a local family, their only way to keep track of the art they witnessed was to learn, reproduce and draw these tattoos but also to understand their meaning and the history transmitted. Only the oral tradition delivered from woman to woman and then the drawings of Aia Leu collected allow a thorough study of this art, ancestral art that Berber women perpetuate. A traditional tattoo that is part of their culture and daily life and captured with sensitivity in this book. Because this art is disappearing. Little documented, it is also less and less practiced today. Only the oldest generations are still the guardians of this invaluable knowledge.
A tribute to tattooing, the family, art and these women resulting from the travels of Felix and Loretta Leu, a family of artists, who discovered tattooing in 1978, the book is a unique source of documentation. Berber Tattooing – In Morocco's Middle Atlas Felix & Loretta Leu Illustrations par Aia Leu Publié le 16 Novembre 2017 50 photos couleur 37 illustrations 42€
