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Former Firestone Tire Dealership, West Side Detroit
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 April 1993; print 2000
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- Chromogenic print
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- American
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- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- b2fecbd1-6a42-4dd7-82f7-a709e5a84cf0
Exterior view of a former hardware store. The building is emblazoned with the sign, "Neds," across its top, as well as the painted sign, "Action Hardware," above its ground floor windows. Snow can be seen on the ground.
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