The now in Bar-Am‘s photographic logbook of that year is harder to swallow when you delve deeper into the images themselves, into the stories they conceal, and moreover—into what they indicate about us, their viewers.
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 months preceding it.