"Recto Vegas" approaches the casinos of the Las Vegas strip as recto-verso visual texts.  

A recto-verso drawing is a sheet with drawings on both sides.  While "recto" means "front side", and verso means reverse or back, usually there is no obvious primary side.  

Our project questions whether the Casinos of the Las Vegas strip have a primary side or time of day:  Front or Back?  Day or night?  Façade or infrastructure?  Seductive fantasy nightscape or service industry dayscape?

Whether it's Recto Vegas (front and night) or Vegas Verso (back and day)--it's primary "Las Vegas."

We photographed the casinos as many visitors do:  by shooting from the window of a moving car.  But unlike most visitors, we photographed from both Las Vegas Blvd. and its less accessible service roads.
  
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.