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Boystown : la zona de tolerancia / with essays by Cristina Pacheco, Dave Hickey, and Keith Carter ; afterword by Bill Wittliff.
LIBRA - Limited HQ151.N67 B69 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prostitution--Mexico, North--Pictorial works.
- Prostitution.
- Prostitutes--Mexico, North--Pictorial works.
- Prostitutes.
- North Mexico.
- Female prostitution.
- Genre:
- illustrated books.
- Illustrated works
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 108 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 x 30 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Aperture, in association with the Wittliff Gallery of Southwestern & Mexican Photography, [2000]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- La cuidad del placer / by Cristina Pacheco
- Dirty pictures / by Dave Hickey
- La zona de tolerancia / by Keith Carter
- Afterword / by Bill Wittliff.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Boystown.
- ISBN:
- 0893819263
- 9780893819262
- OCLC:
- 45811974
- Online:
- Publisher description
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