Can photos & text blocks span two (facing) pages?

Hi there,
For some of the pages of the book I'm working on, I want certain photos to span two facing pages. If I can do this I would also want captions under the photos to span the two pages. It wouldn't matter if the 'middle' of the photos is right where the two pages meet, but of course I'd have to have a bit of free space in these middle margins so that the text in my captions isn't lost in the seam. Am I explaining this well enough?
I realize I could maybe do what I want to do by creating two half-photos from the one—the photo for the left-hand page would be the left side of the photo, the photo for the right-hand page would be the right half of the photo. I could do the same thing for my text caption(s). But I'm afraid it would be hard to line up both sides, so they look right when printed. Which leads me to ask a second question—can I put Pages in a side-by-side view, so I can see both left and right pages together, at the same time? I've looked under View in the top menu, and I don't see such an option.
Thanks for any advice.
Malcolm

Pages '09 v4.3 is not 5 years old and is a substantially better solution than the one year old Pages 5 anything, that at this rate will take until at least 2023 to even reach parity with Pages '09.
I would not trust a major project which is a lot of my time and money to a failed app such as Pages 5, which has had innumerable file format versions, fails to save, update and open with distressing regularity and seems to have little love or care from Apple in the year it has been out.
What you propose will not give you the mirrored pages you need for a real book anyway.
What is not safe is leaving it in Pages 5.5.1
Peter

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