2013 1st DJ HARLEM NEW YORK Street Photography 1970s - 2012 Camilo José Vergara

by Camilo José Vergara

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First edition

Title: Harlem The Unmaking Of A Ghetto Author: Camilo Jose Vergara Publisher: University of Chicago Press (2013) Description: Beautiful oversize oblong book full of photographs of New York's Harlem over a period of decades. Book originally retailed for $55. Starting this auction at a very good price for such great photographic art. About the book For more than a century, Harlem has been the epicenter of black America, the celebrated heart of African American life and culture—but it has also been a byword for the problems that have long plagued inner-city neighborhoods: poverty, crime, violence, disinvestment, and decay. Photographer Camilo José Vergara has been chronicling the neighborhood for forty-three years, and Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto is an unprecedented record of urban change. Vergara began his documentation of Harlem in the tradition of such masters as Helen Levitt and Aaron Siskind, and he later turned his focus on the neighborhood’s urban fabric, both the buildings that compose it and the life and culture embedded in them. By repeatedly returning to the same locations over the course of decades, Vergara is able to show us a community that is constantly changing—some areas declining, as longtime businesses give way to empty storefronts, graffiti, and garbage, while other areas gentrify, with corporate chain stores coming in to compete with the mom-and-pops. He also captures the ever-present street life of this densely populated neighborhood, from stoop gather

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2013
• Condition: Fine

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