A police officer guards bloodied cotton mill strikers, Shanghai, February, from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution

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Artist:
Birns, Jack
Date Made:
1948
Classification:
Photograph
Country:
United States
Artist birth Date:
1919
Artist death Date:
2008
Dimensions:
9 7/8 x 12 3/8 (image) in.
Materials:
Gelatin silver print
Accession Number:
2004.39.9
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 (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(1949)

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Birns, JackUntitled (Soldiers practicing maneuvers while a few people look on), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948-1949)

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Birns, JackUntitled (Two women refugees in corner of a shelter, one sitting, the other laying), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948-1949)

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Birns, JackA European woman walks her dog in the French Concession, Shanghai, May, from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1949)

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