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Walk In Prayer Mission, South Cottage Grove Avenue by 45th Street, Chicago
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 Dye Coupler print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- ff39acdd-7238-4b09-b1d1-7375120d4154
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Exterior view of the Walk in Prayer Mission. The small storefront church is a white brick building with light blue trim and a light blue door. The painted sign above the church windows reads, "Walk in Prayer Mission, Dorothy Bledsoe = Evangelist," and features two sets of praying hands flanking the name.
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