Document Journal: Iwan Baan’s ‘Rome — Las Vegas’ explores both cities from above and below

The photographer’s recent project asks how architecture shapes reality in an era of mass tourism and simulationThe eternal city, the city of sin—one viewed as fixed for centuries, the other constantly being built, dismantled, and rebuilt. Each with their graveyards: of millenia-old societies, of outmoded neon signs. Rome and Las Vegas might form opposites in the everyday imaginary, but might they have more in common than the mere simulations of the Italian capital dotting the Strip?

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