. . . . . . "Pictorial works" . . . "Photographer Virgil Hancock documents the many faces of Las Vegas. The color photographs capture the glitzy hotel-palaces, the neon-saturated nights, the decaying buildings that are being torn down, the billboards, and the pop-culture fantasy playground atmosphere that characterizes the city. In addition to Hancock's introductory essay, writer Gregory McNamee relates in words what the photographer narrates visually, exposing a city of opulence, glamour, and fantasy, and poverty, decay, and despair." . . . . . "American byzantium : photographs of Las Vegas" . . . . "Las Vegas (Nev.)" . .