in search of geologic time

Recto Vegas

The term recto-verso is used in the worlds of printing, binding, and publishing. It describes a two-sided text or the front and back of a one-sheet artwork. A recto-verso drawing is a sheet with drawings on both sides. While recto means "front side" of a leaf, and verso refers to the reverse or back, usually there is no obvious primary side.

Recto Vegas approaches the casinos of the Las Vegas strip as recto-verso visual texts. Our project questions whether the Casinos of the Las Vegas strip have a primary side.

We photographed the casinos as many visitors do: by shooting from the window of a moving car--an instinctual reaction to the reality that the strip offers more than can ever be taken in from a single vantage point.

We took the night photos during one pass up the strip, from south to north. The daytime photos were taken during two passes from north to south: early morning down the east side of the strip looking west and late afternoon down the west side of the strip looking east.

Whether it's Recto Vegas or Vegas Verso--it's prime "Las Vegas."

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Paris, Las Vegas


Planet Hollywood

Tropicana

MGM

Bally's

Luxor

Mandalay Bay

Disney

New York, New York

Bellagio

Caesar's Palace

Wynn

Circus Circus