Boystown: LA Zona De Tolerancia

Stark, compelling images from border-town brothelsIn the early 1970s, Boystown was a collection of brothels along the border between Texas and Mexico, where cowboys and college boys, gang members and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893819263
• ISBN13: 9780893819262
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Aperture
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.8" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

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...

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.

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.