Vergara Photograph Collection

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Vergara Photograph Collection

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Title: Vergara Photograph Collection
Other Title: Camilo J. Vergara photograph collection
Creator(s): Vergara, Camilo J., photographer
Date Created/Published: 1970-2018
Medium: 287 photographs : color prints.
1,980 photographs : film transparencies, color ; 35 mm
ca. 13,000 photographs : digital files, TIFF, color.
Summary: The Camilo J. Vergara Photograph Collection contains several major projects created over 40 years. The oldest images date from the 1970s and show Vergara's early work on the evolution of cemeteries throughout the United states and views of "Old New York." From the 1980s on, most of the photographs present detailed documentation of neighborhoods in several American cities, of in time-lapse series. The same streets and buildings are shown every few years as the urban environment changed in Harlem, Brooklyn, and the Bronx in New York City; Camden and Newark, New Jersey; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Los Angeles, California. Common themes include: residences; storefront businesses, houses of worship, and hair care; murals, graphics, and signs; night views; paired houses; portraits; skid row; cars and buses; children and animals; and the World Trade Center. Also includes documentation of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in the New York city area.
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Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Camilo J. Vergara,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/619_verg.html)
Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Notes:
- Arrangement: Collection consists of three primary components: Twin Towers Remembered; Silent Cities; and Selected photos.
- This collection is open-ended; future additions are expected. The catalog record will be updated as new accessions are processed.
- Collection includes Vergara's captions which accompany the images.
- Gift and purchase; Camilo J. Vergara; 2002, 2003, 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020; (DLC/PP-2002:065, DLC/PP-2003:104, DLC/PP-2009:087, DLC/PP-2013:165-1,2,3,4,5, DLC/PP-2014:143, DLC/PP-2014:200, DLC/PP-2016:039, DLC/PP-2016:099, DLC/PP-2016:141; DLC/PP-2020:036).
- Camilo José Vergara (born 1944) is a Chilean-born, New York-based writer, photographer and documentarian. The titles of Vergara's book indicate the scope of the photography in this collection: Silent Cities (1989), New American Ghetto (1995), American Ruins (1999), Twin Towers Remembered (2001), Unexpected Chicago Land (2001), Subway Memories (2004), How the Other Half Worships (2005), and Harlem (2013). (Source: Wikipedia, 2009) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_Jos%C3%A9_Vergara
- Collection overview, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/camilo-vergara-photographs.html
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Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Camilo J. Vergara," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/619_verg.html
Reproduction Number: ---
Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Medium: 287 photographs : color prints.
1,980 photographs : film transparencies, color ; 35 mm
ca. 13,000 photographs : digital files, TIFF, color.

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Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
Medium: 287 photographs : color prints.
1,980 photographs : film transparencies, color ; 35 mm
ca. 13,000 photographs : digital files, TIFF, color.

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