Butt Book [Paperback]

Jop Van Bennekom (Editor), Gert Jonkers (Editor), Bruce Labruce (Introduction), Wolfgang Tillmans (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 30, 2006

The best of the first 5 years of BUTT: Adventures in 21st century gay subculture Since its first legendary issue in 2001, international quarterly magazine BUTT has been bringing together groups of young alternative gay guys all around the world, connecting fashion, sex, and art with a good sense of irony.

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About the Author

Journalist and editor Gert Jonkers is currently fashion editor for the Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant. He has also been a contributing writer for Esquire, Dutch, View on Colour, and Self Service. Gert Jonkers has an impressive track record of published celebrity interviews, including Marc Jacobs, Cher, Terry Richardson, the Sex Pistols, Michael Stipe, Mario Testino, Jeff Buckley, Willy Nelson, and 'Marky' Mark Wahlberg. Designer/editor Jop van Bennekom chose to specialize in magazines after graduating from the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht in 1997. He established Re-Magazine as a personal platform, worked for a year as the art director for Blvd., designed the architecture magazine Forum (which won the Rotterdam Design Prize in 2001). Van Bennekom is editor, designer, art director, author, strategist, and publisher in one. Together, Jonkers and van Bennekom launched BUTT in 2001 and 'menswear style journal' Fantastic Man in 2005.

Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Taschen (November 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3822830216
• ISBN-13: 978-3822830215
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #919,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BUTT-tastic!, January 9, 2007

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S. Le - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Butt Book (Paperback)

I love the magazine and I'm absolutely in love with this book! I accidentally ran across Butt a couple of years ago while doing some research on one of my favorite creatures alive: Wolfgang Tillmans (who has quite a contribution to the magazine as well as this book, specifically). The magazine is funny, candid, refreshing, gorgeously-sleazy in a honest/tounge-(and whatever else)-in-cheek sort of way, and highly intelligent to boot. This book is all of that bounded into one Butt. It is one giant amazing Buttfest.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not For The Small-Minded, July 12, 2007

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Tom P. (Santa Monica, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Butt Book (Paperback)

This book is a collection of frank interviews and pictoral articles that will keep you turning pages until you've finished each and every one of the too-few-at-550+ pages. The more you read, the more you want. Each story is a voyeuristic acid trip into some aspect of the gay world that you probably hadn't even imagined existed.

Have you ever seen someone interesting walking down the street, and wondered what their story was? Well, what if someone went and asked them simple but insightful questions and then actually got answers? You would have this book. Some of the people being interviewed are somebodies...some are anybodies, and some are nobodies...but they are all equally interesting when asked the right questions.

Trust me, if you have a curious mind, you will love this book. If you already have all the answers, you probably just want to keep right on walkin'.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it but just buy it somewhere else..., May 16, 2007

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Carlos F. Rodriguez V "Carlos Felipe" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Butt Book (Paperback)

I first ordered this book from amazon but they kept on delaying the shipment until I saw the book at a local Tower Records store so, I cancelled the order and bought it brand new. It cost a little more but sometimes you just have to have what you want asap.

Now, about the book. Unlike some review I read here stating that this book portraits young, famous and rich men. Not at all, the interviews are great, intelligent and witty and the characters portrayed range from music stars to ordinary guys (not ordinary like in "common", but simply "not famous"). The format is pretty simple, a Q&A session but it's perfect for revealing every character's personality, interests and humor.

Most of the pictures are cool, others are weird.

I recommend this book if you want to have a broad picture of the gay subculture out there or if you want to get to know better what's going on in the gay cultural world.