Assignment: Shanghai by Jack Birns (9780520239906)

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Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old German cameras and a plum assignment from "Life" magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees and prostitutes, soldiers and beggars, street executions and urban protests photographed in difficult and often dangerous situations

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Assignment: Shanghai

Photographs on the Eve of Revolution

Jack Birns

Carolyn Wakeman

Ken Light

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