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Jeffrey SilverthorneBoystown, The Perfume of Desire (INSCRIBED COPY)

Jeffrey Silverthorne – Boystown, The Perfume of Desire (INSCRIBED COPY)

Photographs: Jeffrey Silverthorne

Text: Anne Biroleau-Lemagny and Jon Hendricks

Publisher: Lars Schwander

112 pages

Year: 2009

ISBN: 978-87-91529-16-0

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In Nuevo Laredo, just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, complexes of sex clubs called Boystowns cater to American men, and a few Mexicans, who wish to watch women take off their clothes and perhaps to pay for sex with one of them.

Photographer Jeffrey Silverthorne (born 1946), who has in the past made photographs of landscapes, still lifes, portraits of transvestites and of dead bodies in a morgue, photographed the women who sell their bodies nightly in the Mexican establishments for wages that far exceed what they could earn in the local maquiladoras. 

'On a simplistic and juvenile level,' Silverthorne writes, 'a Boystown is a celebration of life, a candy store of flesh, with any psychological or medical consequences deferred. On an adult level, Boystown is a direct observation of a spiritual poverty and economic failure that both countries and cultures share.'

Softcover, 25,5 x 22,2 cm, color photographs, some black and white. First edition. Inscribed by Jeffrey Silverthorne to a private collector in 2011. In very good condition.
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