MOTEL VEGAS
MOTEL VEGAS
Fred Sigman
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Art historian and photographer Fred Sigman documents the art and history of Las Vegas motels and classic neon signage that contributed to the drive for preservation and restoration during the mid-90s. Motel Vegas provides a nostalgic look into the ever-evolving landscape that is classic Las Vegas. As the boom in building casinos moved to the southern end of the Strip, some of the classic motels from the 50s and 60s near downtown and Fremont Street have been able to survive in relative obscurity. Sigman’s photographs provide insight on how the economic prosperity of Las Vegas fueled the drive for tourism, while forcing change for others. The book is an extension of Sigman’s previous exhibition held at O.K. Harris Gallery in New York and Smallworks Gallery in Las Vegas.
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HARDBACK
ISBN: 9780977880683
8 x 10 inches | 203 x 254 mm
188 pages
$30 | €28 | £26
Publication date: May 21, 2019Fred Sigman is an art historian and photographer whose scholarly and artistic activities have revolved around the meanings we attach to our experiences of place. Combining his expertise in art history with his photography practice, Sigman has developed long-term projects in Barbizon and the Fontainebleau Forest, the 18th century Missionary Churches of the Baja Peninsula, motels and casinos of Las Vegas, the geoaesthetics of preserving desert wetlands in Nevada, and ancient sites such as Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu.
Since an early age, Sigman has traveled the world motivated by the same questions that have weighed on other travelers such as Chatwin, R.L. Stevenson and Bashō. What am I doing here?
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REVIEWS
“This book gives loyal Las Vegans what they really want: gorgeous photographs documenting Old Vegas motels and their distinctive signs.”
—C. Moon Reed, Las Vegas Weekly“The Las Vegas motel, an instantly recognizable sight that evokes the nostalgia of vintage Americana is a dying breed, a plight that has been captured over the years by photographer Fred Sigman in his new book, Motel Vegas. Sigman begun documenting the Vegas motel in the mid-90s, touring all over, from the Strip to the less salubrious out of town suburbs, with his bulky large format camera to capture the sights of the lights and their motels that managed to resist the decline. His book is a preservation of the motel and a jolting reminder of the wild town they served.”
—Toby Orton, Plain Magazine“...[A] mixture of pragmatism and low-budget glamour is celebrated inMotel Vegas, a photographic homage to the city’s once-thriving but now fast-disappearing motel culture.”
—Pamela Buxton, RIBAJ“If you love vintage Vegas, you’ll want this book in your library. Fantastic time capsule from…Las Vegas’s past. Wonderful mixed collection of archival photos and postcards, with accompanying detailed history.”
—Michael Stone“The perfect book for your coffee table I’d say – gorgeous photography from this iconic city. Sit back and get lost in Vegas…”
—The Journalix