Favorite on Foreign Markets

Favorite on Foreign Markets

Photograph

René Burri

Maker
Swiss, 1933–2014

Favorite on Foreign Markets

Made in Japan


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 3/16 × 9 3/16 in. (15.7 × 23.4 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0183
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Made in Japan) 2/62 23) FAVORITE ON FOREIGN MARKETS, transistor radios are assembled in the Toshiba transistor plant \ by 18-25 year old girls. Paradoxically Japan is suf-fering from a labor shortage. Last fall, available \ jobs outnumbered junior highschool graduate jobseekers \ by 3 to 1. \ Credit Rene Burri © 1962 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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