Former Monument Dealership, Detroit

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Former Monument Dealership, Detroit

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Camilo José Vergara

American Photographer · 1944–present

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> The ghetto poses urgent questions I feel compelled to respond to, not with solutions but with explanations and tangible records. I am driven to publicize and preserve the memory of these environments. > > --Camilo José Vergara Camilo José Vergara has spent more than thirty years documenting poor, urban, and minority neighborhoods across the United States. His projects emerge from what he sees as

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Date
negative December 1998; print 2000
Medium
Chromogenic print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
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Exterior view of a brick building with a narrow roll-up door and curved corners. Parts of the building's walls are painted white. The area in the foreground is covered with dried grass and strewn with trash.

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