Guy Le Querrec joined Magnum Photos in 1976
” Like so much of Bar-Am’s documentation of Israel and the conflicts that have seized the region
Smith described this image: “A striking picture which is about the best I have made since the year’s beginning
still leaving the dream of their recently gained independence
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
Fine Print: Waterhole, Nahal Zohar, 1954 Warehouse Guy Le Querrec joined MagnumMicha 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