Watch: Julia Alfonso Breaks Down The History Of Tattooing In Atlanta

The owner of West End Tattoos talks about the popular designs of the early 1990s.

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Julia Alfonso opened the first tattoo shop in Atlanta to welcome African American artists in the earIy 1990s. In this video, the second webisode drawn from Miya Bailey and Artemus Jenkins' Color Outside The Lines: A Tattoo Documentary, Alfonso talks about her West End Tattoos parlor and the nature of the tattoos popular among early clients.

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