The interactive Web archive Invincible Cities is a Herculean accomplishment by sociologist and photographer Camilo José Vergara. Over three decades, Vergara has taken more than fourteen thousand photographs of urban buildings, subways and landscapes, each from the same perspective. The result captures the arc of character of each location, but also of the people who live there. “Ghetto residents often identify themselves with their city,” Vergara says, “yet this identification is ambiguous since much of what they love about their communities exists only in memory.” The site is a growing work of interactive anthropology, where users can comment on the archive. (via Daily Dose)
