Naked Las Vegas

By Greg Friedler

Like Greg Friedler's three previous studies--Naked New York, Naked Los Angeles, and Naked London--where each subject appears first clothed and then without clothes, these seventy-five people both confirm and contradict our assumptions about those who live and work in Sin City. Color photographs echo the gaudy surface of the Strip, but these people--including waitresses, teachers, sex workers, businessmen, transsexuals, taxi drivers, mothers, and homeless men--dare to step outside their protective everyday facades.Unlike traditional nude photography, these portraits are devoid of erotic or sexual overtones. Friedler's work is a kind of anthropological survey. If clothing is a voluntary choice, unclothed we see people in an involuntary state--we see their bodies as we see their faces, unmasked. These images are at once deeply intimate and refreshingly matter-of-fact.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393332489
• ISBN13: 9780393332483
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.5"