Camilo José Vergara | Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communications
Camilo José Vergara
Photographer and Writer
November 13, 2013
8:00 p.m.
"Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto"
Hastings Hall
180 York Street
An Urban Studies at Yale Event
About Camilo José Vergara
Camilo Jose Vergara is a Chilean born photographer
and writer. His subjects are: representing time, the American ghetto,
ruins, and American popular culture. His works have been widely
exhibited, most recently in the New York Historical Society (
Martin Luther King Jr.: The Dream Continues, 2013), the Museum of the City of New York (
Tiny Towers: 1970–2011, 2011–12), and the National Building Museum, Washington D. C. (
Detroit Is no Dry Bones), 2012;
How the Other Half Worships, 2009). Amongst his publications are
Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto (forthcoming, 2013),
How the Other Half Worships, 2005,
The New American Ghetto (1995), and
Twin Towers Remembered
(2001). In 2002 Vergara was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius"
grant and he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President
Obama in 2013. His website is Camilojosevergara.com
Camilo José Vergara | Yale Office of Public Affairs & Communications
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