Porn in the U.S.A.

Photographer Michael Grecco takes an R-Rated Look at an X-Rated Industry

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Photographer Michael Grecco's work has appeared in Wired, Time, and Entertainment Weekly, but in his latest book, Naked Ambition: An R-Rated Look at an X-Rated Industry (available through RockOut books), Grecco turns his lens to the Adult Video News Awards Show in Las Vegas. The collection, which includes essays from erotica experts Larry Flynt and Dave Navarro, took two years and some 13,000 frames to create. In this excerpt, Grecco describes the money shots and half-dressed subjects who inspired him to document the "crazy and amazing" world of porn.

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