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Former Hi Speed Gas Station Now a Car Repair Shop, Signs by Eugene
Creator
Camilo José VergaraAmerican Photographer · 1944–present
All works by this person →> 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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- negative August 1994; print 2000
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Culture
- American
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- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 8250ece8-406c-484e-bce5-a299ee800686
View of colorfully painted signs on the side wall of a car repair shop. The name of shop, "Mister Fix It," is emblazoned across the top of the wall. An a-frame sign with the shop's business hours can be seen on the sidewalk on the lower right area of the image. A man and a boy walk in front of a car in the background.
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