Untitled (Sampans line the river), 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:

2004.39.68

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 (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)

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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 (Foreign soldier speaks with domestic soldier on rural street lined with communist China flags, a crowd looks on), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1949)

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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)

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)

Birns, JackUntitled (Foreign soldier speaks with domestic soldier on rural street lined with communist China flags, a crowd looks on), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1949)

Birns, JackA family peaks through a fence to watch street acrobats perform, Shanghai, May, from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948)

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