Wanna party? Not with a ten foot pole!!!!!!!!

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	• Boystown: La Zona de Tolerancia Aperture, 2000 - 128 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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Wanna party? Not with a ten foot pole!!!!!!!!

This facinating volume of amatuer photography taken in the brothels of 1970's Boystown in Mexico asks far more questions than it answers. Yet even the most voyueristic among us probably wouldn't want the answers to most of the questions posed by these pictures. You may need a shower and a breath mint by the time you are done reading/gazing at this tome! I want to highly reccommend this book, but I'm not sure to whom. There is little if anything erotic about it. The photography itself has an understated style to it but is clearly amatuerish. I suppose if you are facinated with the photographic subjects of Diane Arbus, as I am, you will be drawn into the pages of Boystown. This book is not about how the other half lives. In fact it seems like another planet to me. Check it out.

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Trip down memory lane...

Fun book for coffee table in billiard/game room. The academic who wrote no young American pictures are included as some type of conspiracy must have not been down there with a group of friends drinking cheap beer, because they would have bought their pictures too!

Good times, great memories, fun book...

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what a book

This book will knock your socks straight off. These photographs were taken by, apparently, amateur photographers, but they are simply magical. Although these photographs were [taken] in Mexican brothels, they speak volumes about the American Southwest. A must have for collectors of the great photography books of our time. Part of the permanent OilCan collection.

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Stark, compelling images from border-town brothels

In the early 1970s, Boystown was a collection of brothels along the border between Texas and Mexico, where cowboys and college boys, gang members and family men, drunkenly traveled desert highways to dance to six-piece Tejano bands, guzzle cheap liquor, and pay for sex. A group of photographers worked these clubs every night, shooting sharp, in-your-face souvenir pictures of girls with round faces quietly smoking while men fondled them and cowboys danced on tables. These shimmering flash photos of prostitutes and their johns appear here for the first time, along with formal portraits of the women and their families taken by the same anonymous club photographers.

In 1974, screenwriter and photographer Bill Wittliff went to Boystown and contacted several of the photographers who took pictures at the brothels. He has archived thousands of their negatives, the discards of the souvenir business, and preserved them for posterity. This remarkable volume provides the first opportunity for the rest of us to witness the mesmerizing world of Boystown through the eyes of a group of photographers who were an integral part of that world.

Boystown is published in association with the Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern and Mexican Photography at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

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