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Murals painted around San Bernardino, California, showcase the area’s natural surroundings and historical and cultural links. -
Murals painted around San Bernardino, California, showcase the area’s natural surroundings and historical and cultural links. -
Murals painted around San Bernardino, California, showcase the area’s natural surroundings and historical and cultural links.
Vital Signs
Juan Delgado and Thomas McGovern,
128 pages, paperback:
$18.95.
Heyday and the Inlandia Institute, 2013.
San Bernardino, Calif., has a reputation for poverty and crime, but poet Juan Delgado and photographer Thomas McGovern offer a vibrant view of the city’s working-class Latino neighborhoods in their new book, Vital Signs. The people of this urban landscape are strikingly absent from McGovern’s stark images, which showcase hand-painted signs and murals on buildings framed by the empty blue California sky. But Delgado’s understated poems, grouped in sections between the images, richly convey the stories of the region’s resilient inhabitants.
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Vital Signs, a book by by Juan Delgado and Thomas McGovern.
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