Foreigners relax after tennis as the Communists draw closer, Shanghai, March, 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:
12 3/8 x 8 5/8 (image) in.
Materials:
Gelatin silver print
Accession Number:
2004.39.13
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

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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 teacher and pupils in English language classroom), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1948-1949)

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Birns, JackUntitled (Woman on open boat in the river with a shanty town in background, probably Shanghai, December), from the series Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution(1947)

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Birns, JackA 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(1948)

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