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|Nik Wheeler/Photos courtesy Collins Publishers
"Planet Vegas" features a picture of Young Electric Sign Company's boneyard. The book is a photographic document of life in Las Vegas.
|Robert Holms
Twenty photographers worked on "Planet Vegas." The cover photo is of a Las Vegas dancer in Tropicana's "Folies Bergere."
|Michael Coyne
"Planet Vegas" documents gambling in Strip and downtown casinos as well as the gambling that goes on in convenience stores, above, supermarkets, restaurants and bars.
|Michael Coyne
Chimney sweep Robert Koehne posed in traditional uniform for "Planet Vegas" in a shot which captures some of the area's sprawling subdivisions.
|Acey Harper
Maintenance workers repair the underwater mechanisms at Treasure Island's Buccaneer Bay so nightly battles between pirates and the British can entertain visitors.
A different world
"Planet Vegas" captures spectacular and offbeat life in Las Vegas.
By Joan Whitely
Review-Journal
What if somebody threw a shindig for Elvises and hardly anyone - only four souls, to be specific - came?
Well, if you're a photographer trying to capture the essence of what you anticipate will be a Las Vegas moment, you regroup.
And that's what the photographers for "Planet Vegas" did. They shot the heck out of the four impersonators who did show up for the all-Elvis rendezvous at the Normandie Motel last spring, then picked up leads about other local Elvi, which they pursued another day.
Two pictures that resulted from that time-consuming endeavor appear in "Planet Vegas," a glossy, hardcover picture book about Las Vegas that...
