Once-proud libraries, suddenly senile, spill their books onto fractured floorboards, young trees taking root in the worded pulp; enfeebled, skyscrapers fall prey to vandals and thieves, sagging gap-toothed with windows punched; choirs of squirrels congregate in the amber-stained light of collapsing church windows. Chilean photographer and sociologist Camilo Jose Vergara has spent twenty-five years documenting the decline of America's inner cities, returning to the same sites time and again, and his photographic sequences are an American family album of respect, admiration, and loss.