Fine Print: Waterhole, Nahal Zohar, 1954 Size:12 x 16 in (30 x 40 cm)

Fine Print: Waterhole, Nahal Zohar, 1954 Size:12 x 16 in (30 x 40 cm)Micha Bar Am has been a Magnum Correspondent since 1968. He was born in Berlin in 1930 and moved with his family to Israel, then Palestine, in 1936. Growing up in Haifa, Bar Am lived on a kibbutz and began to document kibbutz life with borrowed cameras. Active in the pre state underground, Bar Am was drafted in 1948 when the Jewish Arab conflict turned into all out war. After his military service, he had several jobs before he began to photograph

but many end up stranded in Mexico

Learn to See: A Sourcebook of Photography Projects by Students and Teachers (Polaroid Foundation

A surreal breeze drifts through the portraits and landscapes in this book despite their documentary nature

Built to last with neck ribbing

casting a radiant presence over the darkened landscape

before the wall fell

and forgetting

For Veuve Clicquot

the photos seem to exist in their own abstract universe

the collective his brother Robert had founded

Edward Makuka Nkoloso

when the desert turns a softer shade of yellow