American Byzantium: Photographs of Las Vegas (University of Arizona Southwest Center series)

"At the beginning of the third millennium, Las Vegas, Nevada has become a new model of consumer entertainment-the total pleasure market in which everything is for sale. Hancock's superb photographic eye chronicles the pop-culture fantasy playground that is Las Vegas, a physical location as much as an idea, a place that deliberately blurs politics, money, art, religion, entertainment, sex, and anything else architects can imagine and marketers can sell."-the publisher.