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LAS Vegas Periphery - Views from the Edge (Hardcover)
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LAS Vegas Periphery - Views from the Edge (Hardcover)
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Laurie Brown has long been fascinated with what happens at the edge
of cities. In her pioneering, photographic work on Los Angeles, her
focus was on the terraforming activities in that quintessential
modern metropolis, where nature is literally scraped away and
terraced to accommodate the most recent version of the American
Dream: more roads and highways, more residential and commercial
developments, more golf courses and city services, more pressure on
the natural systems that undergird the city and region. It was only
natural that Brown would turn her artistic attention to the eastern
end of the Los Angeles corridor--Las Vegas--and she does so in
full, living color. Few other places engender such a common image
of excess and extravagance as does Las Vegas. But Brown reminds us
that what makes Las Vegas such an alluring place to live and to
visit is its location in the austere but beautiful landscapes of
North America's driest and sunniest region: the magnificent Mojave
Desert. As Las Vegas has expanded, the contrast between the native
desert and recent human terrain is a palpable fact that Brown
captures brilliantly in her panoramic format. In each photograph we
see the impact of our newest designs and constructions on the land,
raising questions about the availability of scarce natural
resources and, ultimately, the wisdom of our vision for the place.
By finding the interface between nature and culture that exists in
these so-called paradisal environments, Laurie Brown takes us on a
modern journey on a well-worn path in Western civilization: the
pushing out of the city that emerged in ancient Greece and Rome and
extended beyond the city walls of medieval Europe to today's
political boundaries nestled beside nature's undeveloped frontier.
But at what cost? Like the ruins of Pompeii, Brown's hauntingly
beautiful photographs reveal how well (or not) we have created a
modern American Eden: Las Vegas. (See the publishers website for a
slide show and further information about the book:
http://gftbooks.com/books_BrownLaurie.html ).
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