Micha Bar-Am  (Israeli, 1930) 

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Micha Bar-Am Biography
1930   Born in Berlin, Germany
1936   Moved with family to Israel (then Palestine)
1959 - 1960   Robert Capa Award
1968   Joined Magnum Photos. Became the Contracted Middle East photographic correspondent for the New York Times (until 1992).
1974   Founding member of ICP, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1985   IBM Fellowship, Aspen, Colorado, USA
1985   Golden Flamingo Award for Photographic Poster, Arles, France
1985   Fulbright Grant
1985 - 1986   Nieman Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts, USA
1977 - 1993   Curator of photography at the Tel Aviv Museum
1993   Enrique Kavlin Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2000   The Israel Prize for Visual Arts
  Lives and works in Ramat Gan, Israel
Selected Exhibitions
2009   Tel Aviv. Through the Lens of a Magnum Photographer, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin
2007   Micha Bar-Am, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York
2006   Eyes Of Time, TAMMEN Galerie, Berlin
2002   Magna Brava, Beurs van Berlage Museum, Amsterdam (Traveling Magnum group exhibition)
2001   Magnum – A Community of Thought, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
2000   Micha Bar-Am: Photographs, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2000   From Mirror to Memory, Mane-Katz Museum, Haifa
2000   Time Frame, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2000   Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1998   Israel: Die Ersten 50 Jahre- Eine Fotobiographie, traveling exhibition, Germany
1998   Israel: A Photobiography, Internationl Center for Photography, New York (travels to L.A, Houston, Memphis, Oklahoma City)
1996   The Last War, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1992   Patterns of Jewish Life, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
1990   Israel: The Stormy Years, Barbican Centre, London
1985   Micha Bar-Am, International Museum of Phoography at George Eastman House, Rochester
1982   Israel Diary: 1956-1982, International Center for Photography, New York
1981   Micha Bar-Am, G.Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles
1979   Jews in Egypt – Spring 1979, Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv
1975   Micha Bar-Am: Photographs, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Selected Public Collections
  Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
  Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
  Musee d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, France
  National Maritime Museum, London, UK
  Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
  Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
  Diaspora Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
  The Museum of Photography at Tel Hai, Tel Hai Kibbutz, Israel
  International Center of Photography, New York, NY
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,TX
  International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
  Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Literature
1998   Israel: A Photobiography, Simon & Schuster, USA
1996   The Last War, Keter Publishers, Israel
1991   Painting With Light: The Photographic Aspect in the Work of E.M. Lilian, Tel Aviv Museum of Art/Dvir Publishing, Israel
1984   Jewish Sites in Lebanon, Moreshet Erets-Yisrael/Ariel, USA
1981   The Jordan, Massada Ltd., Israel
1970   Portrait of Israel, New York Times/American Heritage Press, USA
1957   Across Sinai, Hakibbutz Hameuhad, Israel