BOOK
Motel Vegas
By Fred Sigman, Smallworks Press, £23.58, 188 pages, hardback, ISBN 978-0977880683
WHEN we think of American locations, be it the arid vistas of California's Death Valley or the neon-saturated metropolis of New York's Time Square, we often do so in cinematic terms. We're so accustomed to seeing these generous landscapes onscreen we can't help but project narratives into their empty spaces. Such is the case with art historian, globetrotter and photographer Fred Sigman, who has produced this evocative book, which takes a look at the various motels that sit within downtown Las Vegas and Fremont Street.
As casinos boomed on the southern end of the Strip, the downtown area remained static, meaning that each motel has retained its classic design of the 1950s and '60s. It's a…
