Camilo José Vergara, un photographe « scientifique » et politique
Born in Chile in 1944, Camilo Vergara studied sociology in the United States. He then applied his training to photography as a scientific and politic tool of investigation of black ghettos. For the past forty years he has documented America’s most dilapidated neighborhoods, first of all Harlem, then...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut des Amériques
2019-03-01
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| Series: | IdeAs |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ideas/5135 |
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| Summary: | Born in Chile in 1944, Camilo Vergara studied sociology in the United States. He then applied his training to photography as a scientific and politic tool of investigation of black ghettos. For the past forty years he has documented America’s most dilapidated neighborhoods, first of all Harlem, then Detroit, Chicago, Camden, and other cities. Year after year, he has used rephotography to document the abandoned districts taking pictures of the same places, using the same procedures. Vergara is the only photographer to have scientifically documented the dereliction of poor neighborhoods in the United States. This article shows how Camilo Vergara’s work developed, and what his ideas and concepts are. Eschewing the presentation of poverty in any sensational way Vergara deconstructs the political and social situations that led to such states of dereliction in the black ghetto. |
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| ISSN: | 1950-5701 |