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

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Artist:
Birns, Jack
Date Made:
1947
Classification:
Photograph
Country:
United States
Artist birth Date:
1919
Artist death Date:
2008
Dimensions:
10 5/8 x 10 1/8 (image) in.
Materials:
Gelatin silver print
Accession Number:
2004.39.3
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, JackCommunist prisoners, trussed and disemboweled, line the riverbank, Songjiang, February, from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948)

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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Birns, JackUntitled (Foreigners playing bocci ball or some sort of lawn bowling activity, while two men with a dog look on, probably Shanghai), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1949)

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Birns, JackUntitled (Woman selling long clear glass / plastic tubes), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948-1949)

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