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ID	15
Name	Jack Birns (1919-)
Family Name	Birns
Given Name	Jack
Field of Activity	Press Photography
Date of birth	1919
Place of birth	United States
Biographical information	Jack Birns started working as a free-lance assignment photographer in 1946 in Los Angeles. He was sent to China in December 1947 with three ten-year old cameras on assignment for Life magazine. Jack Birns covered the last years of the Civil war that raged in China until May 17, 1949. For a fuller presentation, see Assignment Shanghai (2003).

Images from this Photographer (38 results)

A Body Collector of the Tongren Fuyuantang [id:15286]	A coffin repository turned into living quarters by refugees [id:34510]	Aerial view of Bubbling Well Road and Thibet Road [id:25425]
Aerial view of Soochow Creek [id:25418]	Aerial view of the Bund [id:25417]	An aerial view of Shanghai North Station [id:25416]
Bar street at night [id:25618]	Boats in a canal [id:25648]	Body of two executed suspected communists [id:25426]
Children's corpses collected and encoffined by the Tongren fuyuantang [id:15285]	Coffin and photograph portrait in a coffin repository [id:34509]	Collecting truck of the Shanghai Public Benevolent Cemetery - 普善山莊 [id:25422]
En route to an execution [id:25420]	Execution of a man [id:25620]	Family meal on a coffin table [id:25651]
Garbage boat on Soochow Creek [id:25423]	Homeless people sleeping in the street [id:25424]	Indoor view of a higher-grade coffin repository [id:34507]
Inside a temple [id:25649]	Loaded trucks about to board on a ship [id:25621]	Man covering or remowing stram on coffins in a coffin repository [id:34511]
Mother watching her child [id:25650]	Nine-curve Bridge and Willow Pattern Tea House [id:25619]	Refugees having a meal in a coffin repository [id:34512]
Rice purchase in a coffin shop [id:25652]	Rudimentary cooking stove [id:25653]	Street scene with crowd and trucks [id:25421]
Taking one's meal in a coffin shop [id:34499]	The workers of the Shanghai Public Benevolent Cemetery bring a coffin to encoffin the corpse of an infant (2) - 普善山莊 [id:34590]	The workers of the Shanghai Public Benevolent Cemetery bring several coffins of corpses picked up in the street (4) - 普善山莊 [id:34592]
The workers of the Shanghai Public Benevolent Cemetery drive away with the coffins of corpses picked up in the street (6) - 普善山莊 [id:34595]	The workers of the Shanghai Public Benevolent Cemetery just spotted the corpse of an infant (1) - 普善山莊 [id:34589]	The workers of the Shanghai Public Benevolent Cemetery load coffins of corpses picked up in the street onto their truck (5.1) - 普善山莊 [id:34593]
The workers of the Shanghai Public Benevolent Cemetery load coffins of corpses picked up in the street onto their truck (5.2) - 普善山莊 [id:34594]	The workers of the Shanghai Public Benevolent Cemetery place the corpse of an infant in a coffin (3) - 普善山莊 [id:34591]	Western residents at the French Club [id:25622]
Western tourists in front of a shop window [id:25617]	Winter shelter for destitute [id:27077]	...

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