1970’s NYC (Camilo José Vergara Photography)
Born in Santiago, Chile in 1944, Camilo José Vergara studied sociology at Notre Dame, and moved to New York in 1968.
There, he became a prolific street photographer in his spare time, documenting the gritty neighborhoods of the South Bronx and Lower East Side during a period of economic stagnation, poverty and urban decay.
In the late 1970s, he developed a method of photographing neighborhoods in a straightforward, dispassionate manner, and rephotographing them over the years to track their transformations. He brought this methodology to studies of other economically depressed cities across the country. His life’s work has earned him a MacArthur “Genius Grant” and the National Humanities Medal.
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