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emerge onto the street and then photograph the surrounding blocks, fanning steadily outward. By 1977, he had come upon a rough approximation of his lifelong working method, returning to the same locales over time to photograph changes in the makeup of the communities in question.
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in the early '70s, when he moved to the city. This work changed significantly in the middle 1970s, when graduate work in sociology at
Columbia University increasingly sensitized him to the complexities of environmental influences on social behavior. The advent of
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magazines have also commissioned him to produce "mines" of his work—collections that feature topics or themes, from GM automobiles to distant traces of the World Trade Towers. His eight and most recent book is
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His projects include a continuing series of exhibitions, books, and magazine projects, including a collection of pictures of
Chicago's public housing for the new literary magazine
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slums and decaying urban environments. Beginning in the 1980s, Vergara applied the technique of
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from President Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House.
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would allow users to compare historical street scenes,
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Vergara, Camilo José (Autumn 2009). "The Projects".
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