Micha Bar-Am born 1930 Berlin, Germany is a renowned Israeli journalistic photographer.Started taking pictures in the early fifties with borrowed cameras, until he bought a Leica. After publishing his book, Across Sinai, he worked as a photographic reporter and in the editorial staff of the Israeli Army magazine, Ba-Mahaneh from 1957 to 1967. He became the photographic correspondent from Israel for the New York Times in 1968, a position he held until 1992. In 1974 he helped to found the International Center of Photography in New York.
From 1977-92, he was also head of the
department of photography at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
He now does his
own photography.
