Jobs Project: Prison Re-Entry, prints
- Description
- Black-and-white photographic prints depicting daily life of incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people, or otherwise impacted by the justice system. Prints feature people making phone calls, playing cards and chess, spending time with family, exercising, and educational opportunities related to literacy, technology, and trade skills. 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.
- Creator
- Finkle, Harvey (creator, photographer)
- Form
- black-and-white prints (photographs)
- Date
- 2005 to 2006
- Subject
- Exercise
- Formerly incarcerated persons
- Games
- Imprisonment
- Incarcerated persons
- Leisure
- Prisoners
- Collection
- Harvey Finkle photographs
- 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 13, Folder 8-13
- Provenance
- Gifts of Harvey Finkle, 2020 and 2021.
- 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.
- Resource Type
- Still Image
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