17 2 / 2009
From this article:
“Vergara’s encyclopedic archive of the built environment — burned out tenements, empty lots, ghostly factories, junkyards, graffiti, railroads, cemeteries and crumbling landmarks — numbers more than 14,000 color slides and has yielded seven books including The New American Ghetto (1995), American Ruins (1999), Subway Memories (2004), and How the Other Half Worships (2005). Hundreds of images, too, have found a home on InvincibleCities.com , a four-year-old interactive website sponsored by the Ford Foundation and Rutgers-Camden University, which documents the post-industrial decline of Richmond, CA, Camden, NJ and Harlem.”
Someone please buy me all of those books. Thank you.
