Las Vegas Canvas - 30" x 48" pigment print on Hahenemuhle Paper Rag (image 22" x 40"), 2011; edition of ninety five; also ten artists proofs and one printer's proof; montage of many of my favorite neon images captured during the many business trips to Las Vegas as corporate photographer for the electric sign industry's "Ad Art Sign Corporation"
Twilight at the Little Sign That Could - 22" x 30" pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag (image 14.4" x 21.6") 2011; edition of ninety five; also twenty artist proofs; five one second exposures on one 35mm film frame; Imacon scan; photographically composited with additional images now obscured by median palm trees; with love for original designer and friend, Betty Willis; this is the authorized print
Fremont Street West - 34" x 44" pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag (image 24" x 33") 2011; edition of ninety five prints; also twenty five artist proofs for a theme set of two with matching numbers; from a 4x5 film transparency; Imacon scan; three one-half second exposures on one sheet of film to capture signs sequencing; 1988 classic view of Downtown Las Vegas and opposite view of print "Fremont Street East"; "Vegas Vic" designed by Hermon Boernge
Fremont Street East - 34" x 44" pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag (image 24" x 33") 2011; edition of ninety five prints; also twenty five artist proofs for a theme set of two with matching numbers; from a 4x5 film transparency; Imacon scan; three one-half second exposures on one sheet of film to capture signs sequencing; 1988 classic view of Downtown Las Vegas and opposite view of print "Fremont Street West"; artistic license used to augment "Vegas Vicki" designed by Charles F Barnard
The Stardust Pylon - 33" x 22" pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag (image 27" x 18"); edition of ninety-five; also 10 artist proofs; from a 4x5 film transparency; Imacon scan; the Stardust Pylon was the Ford Foundation's choice of one of the one-hundred world's most influential works of architecture in the traveling "Millennium Art in Architecture Exhibit" in 2000; now resting in The Neon Art Museum in Las Vegas; Stardust pylon designed by Paul Miller
"Happy" The Circus Circus Pylon - 44" x 34" pigment print (image 39" x 29") 2011; signed and numbered edition of ninety-five; also ten artist proofs and one printer's proof; original 4x5 transparency multiple-exposed for sign sequencing; drum scanned with all corrections by this photographer / photo artist; "Happy", the Circus Circus pylon designed by Dan Edwards
"Vegas Vic" - 40" x 28" pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte (image 33.9" x 21") 2011; signed and numbered edition of ninety-five prints and twenty-five artist proof prints in a set of two (along with "Vegas Vicki") for matching numbers; also, one printer's proof;
"Vegas Vicki" - 40" x 28" pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte (image 33.9" x 21") 2011; signed and numbered edition of ninety-five prints and twenty-five artist proof prints in a set of two (along with "Vegas Vic") for matching numbers; also, one printer's proof;
The Aladdin Porte-Cochere - 30" x 40" pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte (image 24" x 30.6") 2011; signed and numbered edition of ninety-five prints, ten artist proof prints and one printer's proof; multiple one second exposures in late dusk on one sheet of large format 4x5 film; drum scanned; Linhof Technika 4x5 view camera and Schneider 150 mm lens; view of the Charles F Barnard designed Aladdin porte-cochere by Ad Art Signs Inc.
Mirage Lagoon and Pylon - 30" x 22" pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag (image 16.02" x 21.36") 2011; from a 4x5 film transparency; Imacon Scan; editing for dust and scratches by artist; a distinctive view of the world famous marquee celebrating one of the greatest shows ever to play the Strip; pylon design by Charles F Barnard
Starlite and Jerry's Nugget - 28" x 20" pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte (image 18" x 12") 2011; signed and numbered edition of ninety-five prints, ten artist proof prints and one printer's proof; late night "stacked-signage" view of classic 50's and 60's smaller pylon signs on the Strip way North of Fremont Street in a non-tourist section of the desert city
The Desert Rose - 20" x 28" pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte (image 12" x 18") 2011; signed and numbered edition of ninety-five prints, ten artist proof prints and one printer's proof; now at The Neon Museum Las Vegas this neon classic was installed at the now New York New York resort casino site; note the entrance to Excalibur in the background on the corner of Tropicana and Las Vegas Boulevard; from a 35mm transparency and Imacon scan and lovingly corrected by this photographer / photo-artist
"Vegas Volcano" - 40" x 48" pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte (image 33.6" x 42") 2011; a 4x5 transparency of five one-second exposures (to capture the full show over time) drum scanned; a definitive image of Steve Wynn's Mirage Lagoon's soon-to-be icon on the "Strip"
Steve Wynn's Golden Nugget - 20" x 26" pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte (image 12" x 18") 2011; signed and numbered edition of ninety -five with ten artist proofs and one printer's proof; of Steve Wynn's first venture into Las Vegas, the newly restored first class and historical Golden Nugget, in one summer's night
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