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360°
Thomas R. Schiff has explored various photographic formats for forty years, the last fourteen of them with panoramic cameras. In the introduction to Vegas 360°, Schiff’s fourth collection of panoramic photographs, art and culture critic Dave Hickey declares his images “a gift to us all . . .” that reveal the 360° design logic that is “otherwise available to none but dizzy drunks and dervishes.” In addition to Schiff’s 64 full-color images, Vegas 360° is also “illustrated” with essays by prominent Las Vegas observers Kim Thomas, author of Vegas: One Cop’s Journey, and Dope Opera (forthcoming); Matthew O’Brien, author of Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas; photojournalist Benedetta Pignatelli; Douglas Unger, author of Leaving the Land, Voices from Silence, and other novels; award-winning editor of Architecture Las Vegas and Nevada Public Radio’s Desert Companion Phil Hagen; A.D. Hopkins, special projects editor heading a team of investigative and in-depth reporters for the Las Vegas Review-Journal; and David Surratt, a freelancer and staff writer for Las Vegas CityLife. Their seven sparkling essays enhance the vision of Schiff’s luminous photographs.
As Schiff acknowledges in his Photographer’s Note, Las Vegas demanded full color; all images in the book were taken with a Hulcherama 360 panoramic camera using ambient light on roll film, then digitized.
131 pages. ISBN 978-0-9795898-1-2 $39.95 hardbound 2008