Camilo José Vergara
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Camilo José Vergara is a Chilean-born, New York-based writer, photographer, and documentarian.
Vergara in 2005
Sequence of 4 photographs taken by Camilo José Vergara of Fern Street in N. Camden, NJ from 1979 to 2004. Demonstrates Vergara's use of time lapse in recording a site over time. Clockwise from top left 1979, 1988, 1997, 2004.
Urban decay
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Urban decay is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude. There is no single process that leads to urban decay.
Camilo José Vergara
…years to capture changes over time. Trained as a sociologist with a specialty in urbanism, Vergara turned to his systematic documentation at a moment of urban decay, and he chose locales where that stress seemed highest: the housing projects of Chicago; the South Bronx of New York City; Camden, New Jersey; and…
Urban decay in Poznań, Poland. The tiles are cracked and covered in graffiti.
Many areas that suffered population decline from the 1970s still have signs of urban decay, such as this derelict building in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
Pruitt–Igoe public housing, St. Louis, Missouri. This urban renewal project was built in the 1950s; it failed and was razed in the 1970s.