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German-born Israeli photojournalist

Micha Bar-Am (Hebrew: מיכה בר-עם; born 1930) is a German-born Israeli photographer.

Another major event is the exhibition ''Micha Bar-Am: An Israeli Photobiography,'' on view at the International Center of Photography in New York until May

"We can look at this shining moment as part of Yitzhak Rabin's legacy." Calling himself a man of pictures, not words, keynote speaker Micha Bar-Am spoke briefly.

Bar-Am, 82, has been taking some of this country's most memorable and most stirring photographs for over six decades, many of them in the South.

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Biography

Micha Bar-Am is one of Israel's most senior photographers. For more than sixty years his photographs have played a central role in the construction of Israel's cultural memory, and have presented the country's image to the entire world.

Born in Berlin 1930, Micha Bar-Am arrived with his family in Israel (then Palestine) in 1936, and grew up in Haifa. He worked at the port of Haifa and joined the Palmach Harel Brigade during Israel's War of Independence.

Jewish artist Ephraim Mose Lilien imagined a glorious Jewish past that resonated with Zionist discourses of spiritual and artistic revival.

He was a founding member of Malkia kibbutz on the Lebanese border. In the early 1950s, he participated in archeological expeditions in the Galilee and later in the search for scrolls in the Judean Desert, also, at that time, he began to photograph his surroundings and neighbors.

In 1957 became a civilian photojournalist for Bamahane magazine, a Hebrew-language weekly magazine pu