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Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution (Series in Contemporary Photography, 2)
Assignment Shanghai Photographs on the Eve of Revolution - Series in Contemporary Photography, 2
Author: Ken Light, Carolyn Wakeman
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520239906
ISBN-10: 0520239903
Publication Date: 10/1/2003
Pages: 144
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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