Vietnam, prints

Creator:

Finkle, Harvey (creator, photographer)

Date:

2018

Description:

Black-and-white photographic prints depicting people and urban life in Vietnam. Prints mostly include portrait-style photographs of people in urban settings. There are some prints depicting a wedding and of students in what appears to be a special education class. Images include Laughing therapy, Hanoi (p. 1-4); 50th Anniversary of Mei Lei (p. 11-12); Agent Orange Museum director, an individual affected by Agent Orange (p. 13-14); a textile worker (p. 19-20); a school (p. 21-24); and a café (p. 39-40). Harvey Finkle (born March 28, 1934) is a self-taught documentary still photographer and photojournalist who has documented social, economic, cultural, and political issues across the city of Philadelphia, the United States, and the world. Finkle's work largely focuses on activism relating to historically underrepresented communities, including people living on low income, unhoused/unsheltered/houseless people/people experiencing homelessness, refugees, immigrants, and disabled people.

Provenance:

Gifts of Harvey Finkle, 2020 and 2021.

Subject:

City and town life; Street life; Weddings; Vietnam

Resource Type:

Still Image

Form/Genre:

black-and-white prints (photographs)

Geographic Subject:

Vietnam

Related Place:

Vietnam

Rights:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en

Rights Note:

The contents of the "Harvey Finkle photographs," an archival collection of photographic material created by Harvey Finkle, of which this volume of digitized images is a part, is held at the University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts and is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.

Notes:

All photographs taken by Harvey Finkle. The front and back of each black-and-white photographic print has been scanned. In some cases, pertinent information is written or inscribed on the back of the prints that is not reflected in the description of this volume of photographs.

Physical Location:

Ms. Coll. 1531, Box 31, Folder 6-7

Collection:

Harvey Finkle photographs