Carol M. Highsmith

Celebrities cloned at madame tussaud's inside the venetian hotel include the mobster benjamin "bugsy" siegel, who built the flamingo hotel

Carol Highsmith has donated her life's photography work of tens of thousands of images to the Library of Congress during her decades-long career.  The photography collection at the Library is the most historic photographic collection on earth and includes the work of Dorothea Lange and Frances Benjamin Johnston.  Highsmith has been doing a visual study of America for 40 years and travels the United States for about 10 months a year.

Nevada

Hyatt resort at Lake Las Vegas, Henderson, Nevada

Dusk aerial view of Las Vegas, Nevada

Liberace's piano and candelabra, Las Vegas, Nevada

Magician Lance Burton, and his assistant, Madame Tussauds, Las Vegas, Nevada

Canal at the Venetian Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada

Neon Boneyard Binion's Horseshoe Casino sign in Las Vegas, Nevada

Sign for Chief Hotel Court, Las Vegas, Nevada

Stratosphere Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

The Horseshoe Casino's neon sign, Las Vegas, Nevada

Abandoned building with art of man staring at cell phone, Nevada

Abandoned “Desert Inn,” Beatty, Nevada

Roy Horn of the illusionist pair Siegfried and Roy, Las Vegas, Nevada

Part of the Las Vegas Strip, including the Paris Las Vegas, Nevada

New York Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada

Illusionists Siegfried & Roy in their private apartment at the Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

Marilyn Monroe, in wax at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada

Neon sign, Reno, Nevada

Old Valley Motel Sign on historic Freemont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada

Art installation of neon man at "Burning Man,” Burning Man, Nevada

“MOM” lit up sign, Nevada

Freemont Street historic neon sign located in Las Vegas, Nevada

Art installation of man at "Burning Man,” Burning Man, Nevada

Hacienda Horse and Rider, historic neon sign, Las Vegas, Nevada

Golden Nugget historic Casino sign in the Neon Boneyard, Las Vegas, Nevada

Group of woman by iconic Las Vegas Sign, Nevada

Giant clown face, at the Clown Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada

The Strip at dusk, Las Vegas, Nevada

Holiday Motel sign, Las Vegas, Nevada

Iconic “Welcome Sign,” Las Vegas, Nevada

“Smokin’ Good Times!” Neon sign, Las Vegas, Nevada

Old Motels and Historic Neon Art in Las Vegas, Nevada

Motel Yucca, Las Vegas, Nevada

Peter Pan Motel sign, Las Vegas Nevada

Above Hoover Dam  near Boulder City, Nevada

Dusk in Las Vegas, Nevada

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museume, Las Vegas, Nevada