Harlem in Time-Lapse Photography

[johnastovall]

"From the time he arrived in the United States from Chile as a college student in 1965, the photographer Camilo José Vergara has been haunting, and haunted by, American cities.
He lives in New York but has spent the better part of the past four decades in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, urban centers with big, poor, largely segregated minority neighborhoods. He has also frequented smaller, fallen-apart industrial cities like Camden, N.J., and Gary, Ind., places he calls “permanent ghettos.”
By his own estimate he has returned to Gary more than a hundred times.
On each visit he has done the same thing: take pictures, mostly of buildings, often the same ones, recording over decades their abandonment, disintegration, demolition and replacement by cheaper structures, or parking lots, or by nothing at all...."

Full story and slide show...

[Angelo]

Stovall, I grew up in that era, in NYC (Bronx). Brought back a lot of memories.
Thanks for sharing.