Clément Chéroux and Clara Bouveresse demonstrate how the cooperative owes its preeminence to the ability of its photographers to encompass and navigate the points between photography as art object and photography as documentary evidence
just in front of Martin Luther King Jr himself
” Like so much of Bar-Am’s documentation of Israel and the conflicts that have seized the region
presents previously unseen stories from Alessandra Sanguinetti in the West Bank and Paolo Pellegrin in Ukraine
the 2017 book from which this image is taken
Fine Print: Waterhole, Nahal Zohar, 1954 Warehouse Clément Chéroux and Clara BouveresseMicha 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