Past
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The Last Photograph, Ran Tal After Micha Bar-Am
Tel Aviv Museum of Art 17 June - 20 December 2022 The art exhibition as a curatorial form meets the cinematic medium, with the museum offering itself as an experimental platform for a new creative collaboration. Micha Bar-Am, the father of Israeli photojournalism, opened his archive comprising fifty years of activity for award-winning filmmaker Ran Tall. The intergenerational encounter spawned a... Read more -
Micha Bar-Am Kibbutz
Beit Shturman Museum 12 April - 12 October 2019 The light in Micha Bar-Am's photographs is not directed at the momentum, the produce, the crops, even though the majority of the photographs were taken in the kibbutz's heyday. Curator: Guy Raz Archive: Orna Bar-Am Read more -
Defence Lines
Tel Aviv University Art Gallery 28 November 2018 - 30 June 2019 The defensive zones, empty of human presence, express vigilance and seem to be waiting for what will happen next; moreover, they invite the viewer to examine their systematic order. Read more -
1967 - Micha Bar-Am - Logbook
Israel Museum, Jerusalem 16 May - 31 October 2017 Bar-Am captures 1967 as a sequence of events that can hardly be called significant or seminal, and this praxis necessarily affects the way the seminal event itself—the war—is ultimately depicted, too. Far from the photographer‘s consciousness, the Six-Day War is already present in all of these photographs in the six... Read more -
Micha Bar-Am - Sea Shore
Maritime Museum Haifa 26 December 2015 - 31 March 2016 For obvious reasons, his exhibition at the National Maritime Museum focuses on a group of photographs that have a clear connection with the sea, with what goes on in and around it; from scenes of Haifa Port, capturing the first sight of the Land for new immigrants arriving by ship... Read more -
Out of the Circle
Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem 2 December 2014 - 28 February 2015 Celebrating the Suzanne Dellal Center's 25th anniversary, the exhibition presents important milestones in the evolution of Israeli artistic dance through works from different periods and mediums, focusing on the motif of the circle and its rupture. This motif, rooted in the hora danced by the pioneers at the start of... Read more -
Magnum Contact Sheets
C/O Berlin, Berlin 31 October 2014 - 16 January 2015 The decisive moment – in photography this determines everything. It is a synthesis between knowledge, sensitivity, technology, form, coincidence and pure intuition. When all these elements come together, such strong, unique images are created that they transcend the everyday and reveal something of the essence of life. However, what is... Read more -
Dividing Lines
Tel Aviv Museum of Art 17 July - 7 December 2013 The year is 1973. The time is the eve of the Yom Kippur War. The country's political and military echelons are in a state of total denial. A shrill alarm siren shatters the familiar personal and social routines of life in Israel. Life does not resume its former course. In... Read more -
Southwards
Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva 5 February - 1 June 2013 Since then, he has been here countless times: going southward, trekking on foot along desert trails, or cruising the skies in a light aircraft, but most of all observing and photographing. He has documented the life of the region and its inhabitants: the astounding natural phenomena, the new towns in... Read more -
War/Photography: images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 11 November 2012 - 3 February 2013 On Veterans Day 2012, the MFAH debuts an unprecedented exhibition exploring the experience of war through the eyes of photographers. WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath gathers together nearly 500 objects, including photographs, books, magazines, albums, and photographic equipment. Images recorded by more than 280 photographers, from 28... Read more -
Insight - Micha Bar-Am's Israel
Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin 1 April - 21 May 2011 Born Michael Anguli in Berlin in 1930, Bar-Am and his family fled Germany for Palestine when he was six years old. Along with the Anguli family, a piece of Jewish-German culture was thus uprooted, arriving in the port of Haifa on August 1, 1936, aboard the ship Galilea. Bar-Am’s biography... Read more
