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Review: 'For Vergara, it is not enough to simply photograph a ruined building; only by digging among its mangled rebar and rotting plaster and by listening to those who dwelt in its Saturnian shadows will the necessary fragments of the story reveal themselves. The irony of so much of what Vergara has documented is that the buildings--whether neoclassical civic beacons such as the Bronx Courthouse or the Michigan Central railroad station or the equally grand refineries and Packard factories that formed part of the industrial infrastructure that helped the United States to victory in World War II--now look as though they themselves were subjected to aerial bombing.'