Untitled (Large crowd waiting in what may be a train depot, with metal girders), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution

Image not available

Artist:
Birns, Jack
Date Made:
1949
Classification:
Photograph
Country:
United States
Artist birth Date:
1919
Artist death Date:
2008
Dimensions:
8 5/8 x 12 7/8 (image) in.
Materials:
Gelatin silver print
Accession Number:
2004.39.77
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

More Works by Birns, Jack

Image not available
Birns, JackUntitled (Soldiers inspecting an arsenal of guns in front of brick building), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948-1949)
Image not available
Birns, JackA young boy idles in his mortuary home, Shanghai, December, from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1947)
Image not available
Birns, JackSoldiers and an armored car prevent Jiatong University students from joining a mass demonstration, Shanghai, June, from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948)
Image not available
Birns, JackUntitled (Soldiers, probably Nationalist, with horses and oxen carrying bundles of sticks in the snow, probably Mukden, January), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948)

Tools