War photographers are a strange and wacky breed. While soldiers are ordered to do their bit on the battlefield, the men and women with the cameras are out there of their own volition, risking life and limb to capture the drama and pathos of the evolving violence and destruction, and get the images to the media-connected public as quickly as humanly and technologically possible.
Micha Bar-Am certainly belongs to that special professional genus. Now a sprightly 83-year-old, Bar-Am has documented almost every war in which Israel has engaged since the Six Day War in 1967. He has been a member of the world-renowned Magnum photographers collective, a photographer for The New York Times, and head of photography at the Tel Aviv Museum, and has gone to great lengths to record regional hostilities for posterity.
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