Bar-Am, Micha
German-Israeli, b. 1940
BiographyMicha Bar-Am was born in Berlin in 1930 and emigrated with his family to Israel (then Palestine) in 1936. He grew up in Haifa, photographing life on a kibbutz in the 1940s. After serving in the military, he became a civilian photojournalist for Bamahane magazine in 1957 and documented Israel’s formative years. In 1967, he covered the Six Day War and his photographs were published worldwide, after which he was invited to join Magnum Photos. From 1968 to 1992, he was the regional photographer for The New York Times and documented the Israeli Palestinian conflict. He became a founding member of the International Center of Photography in 1974 and was a Curator of Photography for the Tel Aviv Art Museum from 1977-1992. His work continues to be published and exhibited around the world, and is in the collections of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris.