A 2-day symposium that looks to the long history of Philly-based visual documentary interventions by Penn scholars. What can we learn today from the ways artists, activists, and young people framed their concerns, their hopes, and their everyday lives during a period of profound change? 

This conference highlights the visual documentary interventions of Sol Worth and Harvey Finkle in Philadelphia during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, a time when the upheaval of the Vietnam War, the displacement of urban communities, and the intensifying struggles for housing and welfare rights reshaped the city's social landscape.