About

THE PHOTOGRAPHER

"Harvey Finkle is a documentary still photographer who has produced a substantial body of work concerned with social, political and cultural issues. His work has been extensively exhibited and published, including four books entitled: “Urban Nomads,” “Still Home: Jews of South Philadelphia,” “Reading,” and “Independent Living: The People Behind the Movement.”

Finkle’s recent work includes a documentation of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU), a poor people’s movement emanating from the poorest neighborhood in Pennsylvania; “The Jews of South Philadelphia,” interviews and photographs of the remnants of what once was among the largest Jewish communities in the nation; and an Independent Living series for Liberty Resources, Philadelphia’s Center for Independent Living for people with disabilities.

Ongoing work includes documenting the activities of many progressive organizations including a death penalty abolitionist group, ACT-UP, ADAPT (disabled activists), KWRU, and other groups concerned with housing and homelessness. Also, Finkle’s work includes an extensive inventory of images depicting all aspects of life in Deaf culture, plus a substantial collection of photos dealing with education.

Works in progress are about the new wave of immigrant and refugee families who have settled in urban areas and the evolving Transgender community."

[from Finkle’s website http://www.harveyfinkle.com/about/

THE PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE PEACE COLLECTION

The digital images donated to the SCPC document protests against the Vietnam War through the past decade. These are low-resolution jpgs only.

An attempt was made to put these digital images into chronological order (with a few mistakes noticed later) by SCPC staff, and to number those that were probably from the same demonstration or other event. So, if an image is called, for instance, "SOA demonstration photograph 5," it means it is the 5th photo from that demonstration, not number five of the same photo.

See the Peace Collection's policy for information about reproduction of images and possible costs involved: http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/peacewebsite/scpcWebsite/Documents/Policies.htm#photograph

For permission to reproduce, or for higher resolution copies, please contact Harvey Finkle at harvey3283@aol.com.

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HARVEY FINKLE

https://hiddencityphila.org/2018/09/harvey-finkle-photographer-seeks-justice-for-the-other/

http://libertyresources.org/news-and-events/gallery/harvey-finkle-archive/

http://breadrosesfund.org/donor-profile-harvey-finkle/

https://www.projecthome.org/harvey-finkle

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