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by Jack Birns (Photographer); Carolyn Wakeman (Editor); Ken Light (Editor)
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- Title Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution
- Author Jack Birns (Photographer); Carolyn Wakeman (Editor); Ken Light (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date October 1, 2003
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780520239906 / 0520239903
- Weight 3.04 lbs (1.38 kg)
- Dimensions 13.61 x 9.25 x 0.78 in (34.57 x 23.50 x 1.98 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects China - History - Civil War, 1945-1949, Shanghai (China) - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003005036
- Dewey Decimal Code 951.042
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Berkeley. 2003. October 2003. University Of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0520239903. Edited by Carolyn Wakeman and Ken Light. Foreword by Orville Schell. 144 pages. hardcover. keywords: Shanghai Photography History. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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 circumstances amidst 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…
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Berkeley: University of California, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Photography by Jack Birns. Foreward by Orville Schell. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Strikingly illustrated with roughly 100 previously unpublished black and white photographs. 9 x 13 1/4 inches. 130 pages.
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University of California Press, 2003. First edition (2003.) Hardcover with dust jacket. Folio with 130 pages. Signed by author/photographer on the half title page, " To Our Darling Friend Mildred, Whom we love for her wit and determination. So with warm regards and love from Jack and Harriet Birns February 25, 2004." The book and dust jacket are in very good condition with very slight shelf wear. Interior clean and tight. Pictures available upon request. Profusely illustrated. "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 circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, and chaos of an expanding civil war." White-Red spine/ Yellow text. #033812. Signed. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.…
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