Untitled (Man standing near burning debris while holding a bowl in front of him), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution

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Artist:
Birns, Jack
Date Made:
1948-1949
Classification:
Photograph
Country:
United States
Artist birth Date:
1919
Artist death Date:
2008
Dimensions:
10 1/2 x 10 1/8 (image) in.
Materials:
Gelatin silver print
Accession Number:
2004.39.73
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 (Large crowd waiting in what may be a train depot, with metal girders), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1949)
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Birns, JackUntitled (Men, probbaly soldiers, sitting and laying on bedrolls in makeshift barracks), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948-1949)
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