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- catalog abstract ""Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old 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 circumstances amid the poverty, corruption, and chaos of an expanding civil war. By then the ruling Nationalist Party had been battling the Communist threat for more than two decades, and Birns focused his camera on the human drama unfolding as war pressed ever closer to the country's financial, cultural, and commercial capital. His effort to show China's misery up close ran afoul of Time-Life publisher Henry R. Luce's fervent anti-Communism, and for half a century many of these historic photographs lay unpublished in Time-Life's archives. Printed here for the first time, they offer a graphic vision of a great city, Shanghai, poised on the precipice of political revolution."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12971735.
- catalog contributor b12971736.
- catalog contributor b12971737.
- catalog coverage "China History Civil War, 1945-1949.".
- catalog coverage "Shanghai (China) History Pictorial works.".
- catalog coverage "Shanghai (China) History.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old 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 circumstances amid the poverty, corruption, and chaos of an expanding civil war. By then the ruling Nationalist Party had been battling the Communist threat for more than two decades, and Birns focused his camera on the human drama unfolding as war pressed ever closer to the country's financial, cultural, and commercial capital. His effort to show China's misery up close ran afoul of Time-Life publisher Henry R. Luce's fervent anti-Communism, and for half a century many of these historic photographs lay unpublished in Time-Life's archives. Printed here for the first time, they offer a graphic vision of a great city, Shanghai, poised on the precipice of political revolution."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Orville Schell -- Preface / Jack Birns -- Introduction / Carolyn Wakeman -- Photographs.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xi, 130 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0520239903 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Series in contemporary photography ; 2".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press, published in association with the Graduate School of Journalism, Center for Photography, University of California, Berkeley,".
- catalog spatial "China History Civil War, 1945-1949.".
- catalog spatial "Shanghai (China) History Pictorial works.".
- catalog spatial "Shanghai (China) History.".
- catalog subject "951.04/2 21".
- catalog subject "DS796.S257 B57 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Orville Schell -- Preface / Jack Birns -- Introduction / Carolyn Wakeman -- Photographs.".
- catalog title "Assignment, Shanghai : photographs on the eve of revolution / photographs by Jack Birns ; edited by Carolyn Wakeman and Ken Light ; foreword by Orville Schell.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Pictorial works. fast".
- catalog type "text".