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Billboard, Allegheny Ave. and 6th, Philadelphia
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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- 2000
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 86808159-fcf0-40f7-b884-4ca17e780ef6
An insurance fraud billboard sits above a concrete barrier. Garbage and leaves litter the ground below the billboard.
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