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Alex MacLean: Las Vegas/Venice: Endangered Myths
Alex MacLean Las Vegas/Venice Endangered Myths Author:Wolfgang Kemp Alex MacLean's new book of aerial photographs deals with two cities that have more in common than the first letter of their names: Venice and Vegas. Both are mystical places. Both are artefacts located and developed in extreme physical environments: the sea and the desert. Canals serve as streets in — the first one, building blocks look like isla... more »nds in the second. Both Las Vegas, the gambler s paradise in the Nevada desert, and Venice, once the powerful capital of Europe culture, are major tourist attractions severely endangered by the climate change which might deprive both cities of their scarcest resources: water in Vegas and land in Venice. In breathtaking photographs Alex MacLean shows us the endangered beauty of these two places, symbols of the human capacity turn imagination into reality.« less