Naked Las Vegas

LikeGregFriedler'sthreepreviousstudiesNakedNewYork,NakedLosAngeles,andNakedLondonwhereeachsubjectappearsfirstclothedandthenwithoutclothes,theseseventy-fivepeoplebothconfirmandcontradictourassumptionsaboutthosewholiveandworkinSinCity.ColorphotographsechothegaudysurfaceoftheStrip,butthesepeopleincludingwaitresses,teachers,sexworkers,businessmen,transsexuals,taxidrivers,mothers,andhomelessmendaretostepoutsidetheirprotectiveeverydayfacades.Unliketraditionalnudephotography,theseportraitsaredevoidoferoticorsexualovertones.Friedler'sworkisakindofanthropologicalsurvey.Ifclothingisavoluntarychoice,unclothedweseepeopleinaninvoluntarystateweseetheirbodiesasweseetheirfaces,unmasked.Theseimagesareatoncedeeplyintimateandrefreshinglymatter-of-fact.