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Harlem
Camilo Jose Vergara
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Description for Harlem
Hardcover. 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. This title offers an unprecedented record of urban change. Series: Historical Studies of Urban America. Num Pages: 312 pages, 268 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 279 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1880.
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 Jose 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, ... Read more
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 Jose 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Historical Studies of Urban America
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226853369
SKU
V9780226853369
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About Camilo Jose Vergara
Camilo Jose Vergara is a photographer and writer, a MacArthur fellow, and the author of many books.
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