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Micha Bar-Am

Taba Beach Resort: A Tourist Sunbathing as a Bedouin Woman Looks For Clients for Camel Rides, 1982

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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
1977 - 1993: Curator of photography at the Tel Aviv Museum
1985 - 1986: Nieman Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts, USA
1985: IBM Fellowship, Aspen, Colorado, USA
: Golden Flamingo Award for Photographic Poster, Arles, France
: Fulbright Grant
1993: Enrique Kavlin Prize, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2000: The Israel Prize for Visual Arts
: Lives and works in Ramat Gan, Israel

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
: From Mirror to Memory, Mane-Katz Museum, Haifa
: Time Frame, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
: Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Israel: A Photobiography, Internationl Center for Photography, New York (travels to L.A, Houston, Memphis, Oklahoma City)
1998: Israel: Die Ersten 50 Jahre- Eine Fotobiographie, traveling exhibition, Germany
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

: 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

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