A poster outside the university gate denounces the U.S. decision to fund Japan's postwar recovery, Shanghai, June, 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:
10 1/2 x 10 1/8 (image) in.
Materials:
Gelatin silver print
Accession Number:
2004.39.30
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 (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, JackUntitled (Children surround Birns and his camera), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948-1949)

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Birns, JackA bicycle cart delivers a child's corpse to a temporary morgue, Shanghai, December, from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1947)

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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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