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Michael Light: Lake Las Vegas/Black Mountain, by Rebecca Solnit, Lucy Lippard
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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 Light's aerial survey of the inhabited West, the photographer eschews the glare of the Strip to hover intimately over the topography of America's 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. Throughout, Light characteristically finds beauty and empathy amidst a visual vertigo of speculation, overreach, environmental delusion and ultimate geological grace. Janus-faced in design, one side of the book plumbs the surrealities of "Lake Las Vegas," a lifestyle resort comprised of 21 Mediterranean-themed communities built around a former sewage swamp. The other side of the book dissects nearby Black Mountain and the city's most exclusive-and empty -future community where a quarter billion dollars was spent on moving earth that has lain dormant for the past six years. Following the boom and bust history of the West itself, Light's photographs terrifyingly and poignantly show the extraction and habitation industries as two sides of the same coin. Essays by two of the world's most celebrated cultural and landscape thinkers, Rebecca Solnit and Lucy Lippard, offer resonant counterpoint.
Michael Light: Lake Las Vegas/Black Mountain, by Rebecca Solnit, Lucy Lippard- Amazon Sales Rank: #1188332 in Books
- Brand: Light, Michael (PHT)/ Solnit, Rebecca/ Lippard, Lucy
- Published on: 2015-05-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 16.40" h x 1.00" w x 10.60" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 70 pages
Review Light's aerial images of the terrain surrounding Las Vegas are both gorgeous and disturbing, showing the suburban sprawl from such heights that it looks like abstract art but reveals man-made havoc. (Jack Crager American Photo)Light’s photography doesn’t so much question the developers’ summary as it does, say, blast it, scar it, terrace it and then build a large housing development on the remains. Featuring beautifully composed aerial shots of the construction sites and golf courses covering the desert, the book is a clear condemnation of the destructive and unsustainable development in Nevada. Much more than that, though, Light is highlighting a wider philosophy behind developments like Ascaya and Lake Las Vegas that fundamentally fail to connect American society with the American landscape in a non-destructive way. (Dario Goodwin Arch Daily)Lake Las Vegas, the subject of Michael Light’s aerial photographs in Lake Las Vegas/Black Mountain, is such an explicitly European fantasy that a replica of Florence’s famous Ponte Vecchio bridge crosses a stretch of its artificial lake, and the houses are mostly in the stucco-and-tile-roof mode called “Mediterranean.” From near the earth you see into yards and houses, terra cotta roofs, pieces fitting together like a puzzle, tight to each other, despite the expanse all around, or you see the texture of the earth that has been groomed and scraped and graded into something you can drop a mansion onto. From a little ways higher, you see the layout of the streets, like a fingerprint pressed into the landscape, the whorls and cul-de-sacs of the curvilinear layouts beloved of developers. (Rebecca Solnit TomDisptach)As in his other work, Light photographed the communities aerially, shooting out of a helicopter and, occasionally, a fixed-wing plane. He worked during the morning and late afternoon, when the light provided “maximum three-dimensionality.” And, for the first time, he shot extensively in color, capturing a dizzying palette of golf-course greens and swimming-pool blues to highlight the artificiality of the manufactured landscape.
That overhead perspective allowed him to capture the way in which the developments, “practically airlifted” into the environment, stuck out from their surroundings. It also afforded him a view of places that would be off-limits from the ground. “They’re guarded and gated and available only to property owners and their specified guests. That’s one aspect of my aerial practice that I enjoy, which is to say that I can leap over the proverbial hedgerow and tell the story I want to tell,” he said. (Jordan G Teicher Slate)A harrowing overview of Nevada's post-recession real estate slump, Michael Light photographs half-finished luxury developments and the landscapes that were reshaped to accommodate them. (Phil Bicker TIME Lightbox)
About the Author Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of sixteen books about civil society, popular power, uprisings, art, environment, place, pleasure, politics, hope, and memory. She is a Harper s contributing editor.Lucy R. Lippard is one of American's most influential writers on art, and was the longtime art critic for The Village Voice. She has received the American College Art Association's Mather Award. Her numerous books include Get the Message: A Decade of Art for Social Change, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object, Changing: Essays in Art Criticism, The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art and Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory.Michael J. Light, MD, FAAP is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Get this incredible book before it sells out By DA I just got my copy of Michael Light’s latest book. I should say that I am a fan of his work, and that I have the previous 2 books in this same series.The new one does not disappoint. It’s an incredible body of work—part study in how the failing Amercian dream can literally be seen in the landscape around Las Vegas, NV, and part showcase of Light’s great images. And the book itself is a work of art. The cover has two pockets that each hold a large-scale portfolio, that are completely removable. And the photos are hauntingly beautiful despite the unsettling nature of the subject matter.If you are not familiar with Radius Books, check them out. They are a non-profit art book publisher in Santa Fe, creating some of the most beautiful books/objects. They donate a percentage of the small run books to public libraries. Get your copy of this two book publication while you can.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. great photography, smart book design, thought-provoking prose By Charles Hood As other reviews indicate, this “book” is actually two titles in one: open the very tall covers and inside sleeves hold separate-but-equal books, identical in format, each with a portfolio of full-bleed, non-coated stock, aerial photographs, a smart essay, and a line-drawn key to provide captions for the otherwise deadpan, “as is” images.Four things make this worth five out of five stars.(1) The exploration of landscape and man’s relationship to same, which is to say, the overt “content” of the book is striking, haunting, thoughtful. As art it can stand alone, but as a collection of ideas, it extends the conversation many people now are having about appropriate ways to inhabit the Western environment.(2) Prose. Lucy Lippard does the essay that goes with the “Black Mountain” half of the book; San Francisco’s Rebecca Solnit (heir to Susan Sontag, if ever we are going to have one) does the essay for “Lake Las Vegas.” Even if you’re indifferent to the images, as improbable as that seems, this is a book to own for the essays that are packaged with it.(3) It’s further important as a comment on and extension of bookmaking as an art. The ways that the spine reads externally and internally, the fine craftsmanship of the bindings, the way the format challenges assumptions and yet feels organic and integrated---if you have anybody in your life who loves books as well-designed objects, this 11 x 17 volume will be the gift they never knew they wanted.(4) Price. While it’s not usually mentioned, modern printing and distribution combine now to make art books cheaper than dinner-for-four at Appleby’s. In fine art galleries, the prints themselves would go for significantly more than this version (by a 100 to 1 ratio), and indeed, there is a $10,000 version of this project, in case you want something a bit more grand. For what one receives, the price here is a great deal.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Edgeland By Robin There are only fifty-two photos in this two-books-in-one publication, some are really fascinating and pull you into the frame but with so few photos the also rans seem to overwhelm the excellent ones. Both books look at contemporary housing developments in the south eastern Las Vegas area. Because the landscape, in parts, is hilly developers had to flatten out the land by creating a series of turning terraces with the obligatory curving roads linking them together. A few of these terrace photos make the land look quite extraordinary, the precision of the lots contrasting with the natural look of the non-vegetation hills.With only two types of photos: terracing and homes, I thought the bird's eye view of housing provided the most interesting images. Because the heat really doesn't encourage outdoor living the properties more or less fill the whole lot with a minimum of space for a garden. McMansions with multiple roof-lines sit right next door to each other. A photo of Roma Hills gated community (which I saw recently used on a real estate website selling a still empty lot) shows the development neatly cut into the hillside. The houses all have trees surrounding them, none of which existed before the building. No solar panels or satellite dishes either, the community housing associations probably bans them. The building style here is faux northern Mediterranean and the road names like Valenzano Way, Tozzetti Lane or Latina Court reflecting the European aspiration in the Black Mountain developments.The twenty-six photos of the Lake Las Vegas (it's actually a reservoir) area continues the Mediterranean feel with Strada di Villaggio, Via Tiberius Way, Mezza Luna Court, Camino Barcelona Place street names and perhaps even more flamboyant properties (palace might be a more accurate word for one or two of these) inside the many private communities. The speculative nature of these developments is indicated by the many unbuilt lots clearly seen in the photos.I've given the publication three stars because of the uneven flow of the photos, with only fifty-two there are thirty that basically show terracing and the empty landscape, some of these, as I've said, are remarkable but surely no more than ten or so would covered this leaving the rest to reveal the visually much more interesting ongoing property developments. Three stars also (or should that be two?) for the hopelessly non-professional way the captions in the back pages have been presented to the reader. Instead of an obvious color thumbnail of each spread, so it can be found easily, there is an outline box containing a thin drawn line of the significant contour shape from each photo -- this is pure designer whimsey and next to useless in finding a caption efficiently, also the twenty-six captions are needlessly spread over six pages in both books, one spread in each would have been enough.**You can spend an interesting bit of time looking at the houses in the Ascaya and Lake Las Vegas areas with Street View and though the Google camera-car wasn't allowed into the gated communities switch to Bing maps for bird's eye views of these and remaining unbuilt terraces.
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