The Dream Continues: Photographs of Martin Luther King Murals by Vergara - New-York Historical Society Date: 01/18/13 through 05/05/13 Ages: All Address: 170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 New York, NY 10024 www.nyhistory.org Description: Since the 1970s Camilo Vergara has been traveling across the United States photographing and thus documenting hand-painted murals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as they appeared on the walls of establishments such as car repair shops, barbershops, and fast food restaurants in city streets and alley ways. The folk art portraits have expressed how the inner-city residents saw the slain civil rights leader--at times a statesman, a hero, a visionary, or a martyr. Vergara also discovered that these images were often based on iconic photographs of Dr. King but that, depending upon the neighborhood where they were created, the portraits could take on the likeness of Latinos, Native Americans, or Asians.