Camilo José Vergara is one of the nation’s foremost urban documentarians. His photographs — acquired by the Library of Congress, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, among other institutions — have been the subject of numerous exhibitions, books, essays, and lectures.

The Towers of the WTC: 51 Years of Photographs by Camilo José Vergara is presented as part of a continuing collaboration featuring his images of the World Trade Center. The 20-year partnership with the National Building Museum began in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with the exhibition Twin Towers Remembered and the co-publication of an accompanying catalogue with Princeton Architectural Press.