Michael Light Lake Las Vegasblack Mountain - Radius Books

Until 2008 Nevada Was The Fastest-growing State In America. But The Recession Stopped This Urbanizing Gallop In The Mojave Desert, And Las Vegas Froze At Exactly The Point Where Its Aspirational Excesses Were Most Baroque And Unfettered. In This Third Radius Books Installment Of Noted Photographer Michael Lights Aerial Survey Of The Inhabited West, The Photographer Eschews The Glare Of The Strip To Hover Intimately Over The Topography Of Americas Most Fevered Residential Dream: Castles On The Cheap, Some Half-built, Some Foreclosed, Some Hanging On Surrounded By Golf Courses Gone Bankruptcy Brown, Some Still Waiting To Spring From Empty Cul-de-sacs.