Camilo Jose Vergara, Author . Rutgers $49.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8135-3682-8
In this accessible, lively account of poor, inner-city churches in America, Vergara offers well-placed snippets of his own analysis and then lets his photographs and the church members do the rest of the talking. Vergara, who has been photographing &
READ FULL REVIEW
Camilo Jose Vergara, Author Rutgers University Press $49.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-8135-2209-8
Vergara has chronicled life in poor and minority communities across the United States in the New York Times, Atlantic, the Nation, the Village Voice, and other publications. Following in the footsteps of 19th-century urban reformer Jacob Riis, the...
READ FULL REVIEW
Camilo José Vergara. Univ. of Chicago, $55 (312p) ISBN 978-0-226-85336-9
Setting out with a 35 mm camera in 1970, urban sociologist, historian, and photographer Vergara (How the Other Half Worships) has photographed the New York neighborhood of Harlem for 43 years. This stunning volume describes the lives of Harlem’s...
READ FULL REVIEW
