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John B. Downey Sign, Emmanuel Baptist Rescue Mission, Crocker at 5th St., Los Angeles
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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- 2005
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- bb05d211-5793-40ed-9841-d78f3c019c34
A black and gold religious sign reads "For / God / Resisteth the Proud, and Giveth / Grace / to the Humble / 1.Peter 5:5." The text is written in red and white paint.
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