Camilo José Vergara

Camilo José Vergara is a photographer and the author of numerous books, most recently, Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age (University of Michigan Press, 2016). His most recent writing on Detroit can be found at PublicBooks.org. More of his work can be found at camilojosevergara.com.

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  1. Hell in a Very Tall Place

    For this survey of what is considered some of the best public housing in the country, the author, a documentary photographer, visited sixty housing complexes in poor neighborhoods of New York City and toured 140 separate buildings .He found many dedicated employees, much beleaguered decency, and much degradation

    Camilo José Vergara