Publisher/Princeton Architectural Press

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"Brothels of Nevada: Candid Views of America's Legal Sex Industry" is a photobook by American photographer Timothy Harsley. Harsley, also known as an architectural photographer, photographed legal brothels scattered throughout Nevada over a long period starting in the mid-1980s, quietly documenting another landscape of American society. Neon-lit exteriors, velvet-covered bedrooms, bars and waiting rooms covered in artificial decorations—what is captured is not so much a place of stimulating desire, but rather a suburban, somewhat familiar, everyday American space. Harsley does not separate brothels into a special world, but observes them as an extension of consumer culture, working conditions, and the landscape of provincial cities. The photographs are characterized by their lack of excessive staging or exposé, and by their calm, detached capture of the working women and the sense of life that permeates the spaces. This book quietly emerges from behind the neon and decorations, conveying the sense of erotic imagery gradually becoming part of everyday life, and the structure of American society that institutionalizes and commodifies even desire.