Sampan dwellers slip their moorings, seeking safety away fron the shore, Shanghai, May, 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:
9 7/8 x 12 1/2 (image) in.
Materials:
Gelatin silver print
Accession Number:
2004.39.27
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, JackWild dogs wait in the distance as a garrison soldier mounts the Communist guerrilla leader's severed head on a wall, Songjiang, February, from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948)
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Birns, JackUntitled (View of the Huangpu river and the Bund in the background with the Garden Bridge crossing the Suzhou creek in foreground, Shanghai), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948-1949)

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