Black and grey realism pin-up tattoo across a man's back, showing a woman in heels and underwear reclining on draped fabric, with a small blue biohazard symbol on the lower back.

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Pin-up tattoo across a back

Realism · Back · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo covers most of the upper back and shows a reclining pin-up woman in black underwear and high heels, one leg raised, with a second woman with short curled hair looking over her shoulder. Soft grey shading and fine gradations render the draped fabric and skin, with strong darks in the underwear and hair. A small blue biohazard symbol sits low on the lower back, the only colour in the image.

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The retouching room at Calder and Pryce smelled of turpentine and warm card, and Ruth Haldane had been told twice that week to keep her head down over the bench. The calendar for the Hartlepool hardware merchants needed a girl reclining on a sheet of grey silk, one stocking leg lifted like a question, and the photographs had come back flat. Ruth's job was to bring the shadows up in the silk and darken the hair until it held the light.

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Marjorie Pell had posed for the Thursday sittings in the back room, her curls pinned by her mother the night before. She never looked at the lens. She looked over her shoulder at whoever was laughing behind it, and that was the expression the client had paid for, though nobody in the office would say so. Against the far wall stood the solvent drums, each stencilled with a blue three-armed mark that meant keep away from food and flame. Ruth had stopped noticing it years ago, the way you stop noticing a clock.

Mr Sowerby came round on the Friday with a red pencil. He wanted the face softened, the eyes rounder and less knowing, so the hardware men would buy the calendar for the wall above the nail tins. Ruth nodded, picked up the finest brush, and painted in the shadow under the chin exactly as the photograph showed it.

The calendars went out in October. Ruth kept the proof sheet, its corners soft from handling, and pinned it above her bench beside the drum with the blue mark. Sowerby never mentioned the face again.

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