The new American ghetto

Resource Information

The work The new American ghetto represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The new American ghetto

Statement of responsibility

Camilo José Vergara

Creator

• Vergara, Camilo J

Subject

• Pictorial works
• Slum
• Bildband
• Innenstadt
• Inner cities
• USA
• United States
• Inner cities -- United States -- Pictorial works
• Getto's
• USA
• Inner cities -- United States -- Pictorial works

Genre

• Pictorial works

Language

eng

Summary

The New American Ghetto provides an exploration, over nearly two decades, of ghettos in New York, Newark, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, and smaller cities. Camilo Jose Vergara chronicles, through photographs and text, the profound transformations experienced by these places since the riots of the 1960s. He provides direct observations of urban landscapes and interiors, from residential areas and institutions to vacant lots and abandoned factories. He takes successive photographs of the same places, tracking change over time - changes that have made the conditions of today's ghettos very different from those of an earlier era. Vergara's interviews with residents and historical research contribute to his unique view of the nature and meaning of the inner city. Termed "a photographic forecast of the demise of urban America," The New American Ghetto brings to light a world of forgotten ruin and struggling reconstruction

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

307.3/362

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

HN57

LC item number

.V47 1995

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography