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Micha Bar-Am
Born in Berlin, Germany in 1930, Bar-Am arrived with his family in Israel (then Palestine) in 1963. Active in the pre-state underground, he worked at Haifa Port and was drafted in 1948 when the Jewish-Arab Conflict turned into an all out war.
In the early 1950's, he began to record with borrowed cameras life on the kibbutz and joins archeological expeditions in the Judean Desert in search for ancient Dead Sea scrolls. After 1956, Bar-Am published his first book, Across Sinai, and was offered to join the editorial staff of Bamachane as a photographer-writer. In 1966, he became an independent free-lance photographer. In 1967 he cover the Six Day War with Cornell Capa. In 1968, he was invited to join Magnum and became the Contracted Middle East photographic correspondent for the New York Times until 1992.
During that time, Micha Bar-Am has covered many more wars, opened up several exhibitions and published books of his work. He is the founding member and Photographic Curator of The International Center of Photography in New York. He established the department of Photography at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art which he headed until 1992.
In 2000, he received The Israel Prize for Visual Arts "for his lifelong recording of the social cultural scene in Israel and its ongoing conflicts with a critical eye and an indelible style".
In the early 1950's, he began to record with borrowed cameras life on the kibbutz and joins archeological expeditions in the Judean Desert in search for ancient Dead Sea scrolls. After 1956, Bar-Am published his first book, Across Sinai, and was offered to join the editorial staff of Bamachane as a photographer-writer. In 1966, he became an independent free-lance photographer. In 1967 he cover the Six Day War with Cornell Capa. In 1968, he was invited to join Magnum and became the Contracted Middle East photographic correspondent for the New York Times until 1992.
During that time, Micha Bar-Am has covered many more wars, opened up several exhibitions and published books of his work. He is the founding member and Photographic Curator of The International Center of Photography in New York. He established the department of Photography at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art which he headed until 1992.
In 2000, he received The Israel Prize for Visual Arts "for his lifelong recording of the social cultural scene in Israel and its ongoing conflicts with a critical eye and an indelible style".
