Untitled (Woman with large brimmed hat carries baskets tied to long stick on a rural street lined with communist China flags, probably Sha Tau Kok Market), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution

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Artist:
Birns, Jack
Date Made:
1949
Classification:
Photograph
Country:
United States
Artist birth Date:
1919
Artist death Date:
2008
Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 10 3/16 (image) in.
Materials:
Gelatin silver print
Accession Number:
2004.39.58
Full BAMPFA credit line:
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Transfer from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Century:
20 AD

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Birns, JackUntitled (Legless man lays on his wheeled cart as a woman and a child walk past him), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948-1949)

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Birns, JackBirns surveys Shanghai's defenses, May, from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1949)

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Birns, JackUntitled (Person carrying baskets on a pole next to thatched roof shacks and muddy creek), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948-1949)

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Birns, JackUntitled (Foreigners playing bocci ball or some sort of lawn bowling activity, while two men with a dog look on, probably Shanghai), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1949)

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