Amazon link to Camilo Jose Vergara’s book, American Ruins
Recommended by my friend Gayle who can be found at Urbanlandscaped.
I’ve been re-immersing myself in documentary photography, a field I studied in college under Michael Lesy…I want to set out in an RV with Jenene to document — what, I’m not exactly sure yet.
Susan Orlean’s articles are some of my favorite examples of documentary story-writing…I loved her book Saturday Night which covers how different communities spend that weekly night letting loose…


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November 5, 2007 at 9:10 pm
gayle
Hello! Thanks for the plug! Yes, I am a big Vergara fan. I’ll actually soon be posting about a presentation of his that I attended, at which he discussed his Harlem project.
June 19, 2008 at 5:14 am
Derringer
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Derringer.