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Michael F. BrownThe Penn Museum‘s new exhibition, Righteous Dopefiend: Homelessness, Addiction and Poverty in Urban America, by Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg, will open for AAA Annual Meeting attendees in Philly on Dec 4, 7:00-9:00 pm , and for the general public on Dec 5.
Photograph from the exhibition Righteous Dopefiend: Homelessness, Addiction and Poverty in Urban America, December 5, 2009 through May 2010 at the Penn Museum. © Jeff Schonberg 2009.
Anthropologist Philippe Bourgois (U Pennsylvania) and photographer-ethnographer Jeff Schonberg (UC San Francisco and Berkeley) spent more than a decade among a community of heroin injectors and crack smokers who survive on the streets of San Francisco’s former industrial neighborhoods. Their exhibit includes more than 40 photographs interwoven with edited transcriptions of tape-recorded conversations, field notes, and critical analysis to explore the intimate experience of homelessness and addiction.
Righteous Dopefiend is presented in conjunction with the Slought Foundation, 4017 Walnut Street, offering a multimedia installation with related programming December 3 through 31, 2009.
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