Bldg Blog shares news of photographer Michael Light's new book "Black Mountain," which documents the "the construction and large-scale terrestrial formatting of a new housing development called Lake Las Vegas."
"Built on the shores of an artificial lake outside the eponymous desert city, the development was radically decelerated into a state of suspended animation by the economic collapse of 2008," explains an article on Bldg Blog. The development described, Lake Las Vegas, is the subject of a new book, Black Mountain, by Michael Light.
The article shares a lot of the images from the book, along with this description, among others, of what makes them so compelling:
"Honestly, these shots blow me away; it's as if Light has captured an act of topographical blackout—a whole landscape, redacted—as what should be hills and valleys are erased and obstructed by this imposed crystallography of settlements that never arrived."
FULL STORY: Landscape Redacted
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