![]() ![]() It’s a requiem for all the promises Las Vegas made and broke a thousand times over. In his book, Insert Coins, Lutz bears witness to the wreckage of The City of Lights, and he seems to do so with an incorruptible poker face. ![]() He spent three consecutive summers documenting the streets beneath the neon lights. The photographer Christian Lutz found himself in the city at the height of our most recent financial crisis. “Ellis presents a collection of images that we feel compelled to piece together, lingering like clues to a larger reveal and resonating with a tension and darkness akin to this mythic land of opportunity ‘where the extremes of luxury and vice are out in the open and the lure of promise draws one in.'” © Christian Lutz Christian Lutz Documents the Hardship of Las Vegas During a Time of Crisis “ Valley of the Meadows the photographer Geoffrey Ellis‘s depiction of the Las Vegas that existed in the 1970s and 80s, a time when he says ‘the city was in a depressing downward spiral and the criminal entities running the city were slowly losing their grip.’ This is the Vegas that was sandwiched between the Hollywood-esque days of high rollers and The Rat Pack in the 1950s and 60s and the transition in the 1990s and 2000s into ‘a family friendly destination which ultimately became a type of adult Disneyland.’ The resulting series, Vegas and She, depicts the Las Vegas we don’t see.” © Geoffrey Ellis Geoffrey Ellis Channels the Debauched Spirit of the 1970s-80s in His Las Vegas Photography Fascinated by the lifestyle of those who exist behind the shiny façade of sin city, she set out to document Las Vegas strippers and the hotel rooms, pink Cadillacs, and nightclubs that act as their stage. The Austrian photographer had a different motive in mind. “When Stefanie Moshammer visited Las Vegas for two months, her days weren’t spent sunbathing by the pool at Caesars Palace or hitting the Bellagio casino at night. Intrigued by the aesthetics of the newly constructed facades and how they relate to the seemingly more authentic realities of the older surroundings, Altmann weaves together surreal, almost otherworldly shots that give off the feel they are at once set in the past and future.” © Stefanie Moshammer Stefanie Moshammer’s Portraits From the Strip Club Capital of the World “Shot in 1995, Las Vegas 95 is the photographer Markus Altmann‘s look at sin city in the midst of its transformation from an old gambling town to a family entertainment metropolis, stacked high with mega hotels and theme parks. © Markus Altmann Markus Altmann’s Fascinating Las Vegas Photography From 1995 ![]()
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