Thanks to Chris Vognar for the write up

A bespectacled man sits before a triple beam scale, carefully but blithely measuring out a quantity of cocaine. Deer carcasses, their heads facing the camera, lie in a row, blood in the foreground. A woman’s blonde head rests in a man’s lap, surreptitiously performing oral sex at the edge of a white-clothed table. These are images of privilege, candid and spontaneous, depicting lifestyles of the rich, if not famous. They come from Will Vogt’s new photographic book, These Americans (Schilt Publishing, $50), featuring photos of his peers shot in Houston, Corpus Christi, Laredo, Hebbronville, and the East Coast. They tell a story of decadence unguarded, captured over many years, mostly in the ’70s and ’80s, by one who was there with a series of point-and-shoot cameras.

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