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Label TextSince the early 1950s, Micha Bar-Am has been devoted to documenting scenes of Israeli life and is now considered one of the country’s foremost photographers. As a member of the Magnum collective, he worked as a documentarian, but also put a strong emphasis on photographic composition, pairing journalism with a strong sense of aesthetics.
DimensionsOverall: 9 3/8 x 7 1/8 in. (23.8 x 18.1 cm)
Accession Number 2025.282
Classificationsphotograph
ProvenanceJeff Perry; Des Moines Art Center [gift from the previous, 2025]
Sharon offers resignation: Defense Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel resigned as a consequence of his indirect role in the killing of Palestinian refugees in the Beirut camps of Sabra and Shatila by Lebanese Christian phalanges between September 16th to 18th, 1982 as the result of a four months investigation. The 54 year old Defense Minister was the principal architect of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon last year, and had been battling for his political survival since the outcome of the enquiry’s report. The last official function of Ariel Sharon on the day the commission report was published, attending in Tel Aviv a meeting of the “Jabotinsky Order” (a portrait on the wall of Zeev Jabotinsky Zionist Revisionist Movement and Menahem Begin’s spiritual leader), February 8, 1983
Image Not Available for Sharon offers resignation: Defense Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel resigned as a consequence of his indirect role in the killing of Palestinian refugees in the Beirut camps of Sabra and Shatila by Lebanese Christian phalanges between September 16th to 18th, 1982 as the result of a four months investigation. The 54 year old Defense Minister was the principal architect of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon last year, and had been battling for his political survival since the outcome of the enquiry’s report. The last official function of Ariel Sharon on the day the commission report was published, attending in Tel Aviv a meeting of the “Jabotinsky Order” (a portrait on the wall of Zeev Jabotinsky Zionist Revisionist Movement and Menahem Begin’s spiritual leader), February 8, 1983
Image Not Available for Several Hundred demonstrators marched on the Washington State Capitol Sunday in protest over treatment of Negroes in the South and the slaying of the Reverend James Reeb, Boston Unitarian minister, in Selma, Alabama last week. A letter from Governor Dan Evans was read to the throng. The governor decried the situation in the South, but warned against smugness in this state, saying much needs to be done, March 16, 1965
Several Hundred demonstrators marched on the Washington State Capitol Sunday in protest over treatment of Negroes in the South and the slaying of the Reverend James Reeb, Boston Unitarian minister, in Selma, Alabama last week. A letter from Governor Dan Evans was read to the throng. The governor decried the situation in the South, but warned against smugness in this state, saying much needs to be done, March 16, 1965
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1965
Image Not Available for And Queenie Makes Three: Army Specialist Fourth Keith Albert embraces his parents catching his dog, Queenie, in a squeeze play as the former POW was welcomed to his home near Thibodaux, Louisiana Tuesday afternoon. Albert, who had been a prisoner for three years, was greeted by a band and a crowd of 200 after he was released by an Army hospital at San Antonio, Texas, February 27, 1973
And Queenie Makes Three: Army Specialist Fourth Keith Albert embraces his parents catching his dog, Queenie, in a squeeze play as the former POW was welcomed to his home near Thibodaux, Louisiana Tuesday afternoon. Albert, who had been a prisoner for three years, was greeted by a band and a crowd of 200 after he was released by an Army hospital at San Antonio, Texas, February 27, 1973
1973
Image Not Available for David Ben Gurion during his daily walk into part of the Negev desert, near his new home at the Kibbutz Sde Boker, Israel
David Ben Gurion during his daily walk into part of the Negev desert, near his new home at the Kibbutz Sde Boker, Israel
1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Sharon
Carol Bove
2003
Image Not Available for Tolerance Group in Washington: A committee representing the Chicago Council against racial and religious discrimination, visits Attorney General J. Howard McGrath at Washington, D.C., September 27, to bring to his attention the events revolving about the rioting in Cicero, Illinois last July when a colored family was prevented from moving into an apartment by a mob which was quelled by the Illinois National Guard. The attorney general advised that on the basis of investigation by the FBI, he intended to present these vents before a federal grand jury for further exploration..., September 28, 1951
Tolerance Group in Washington: A committee representing the Chicago Council against racial and religious discrimination, visits Attorney General J. Howard McGrath at Washington, D.C., September 27, to bring to his attention the events revolving about the rioting in Cicero, Illinois last July when a colored family was prevented from moving into an apartment by a mob which was quelled by the Illinois National Guard. The attorney general advised that on the basis of investigation by the FBI, he intended to present these vents before a federal grand jury for further exploration..., September 28, 1951
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1951
Image Not Available for Israeli-Occupied Lebanon: a father is united with his son in a warm embrace where both are fighting against Palestinian guerrillas here in Israel’s drive to Beirut, June 12, 1982
Israeli-Occupied Lebanon: a father is united with his son in a warm embrace where both are fighting against Palestinian guerrillas here in Israel’s drive to Beirut, June 12, 1982
1982
Image Not Available for Going Home, Desk and All: schoolchildren, some carrying desks, walk home from their outdoor school in a village near Quang Tri in northern South Vietnam. Classes were begun outdoors when villagers returning to the region after last year’s North Vietnamese offensive found their village, their school included, in ruins, September 24, 1973
Going Home, Desk and All: schoolchildren, some carrying desks, walk home from their outdoor school in a village near Quang Tri in northern South Vietnam. Classes were begun outdoors when villagers returning to the region after last year’s North Vietnamese offensive found their village, their school included, in ruins, September 24, 1973
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Anti-Tank Task: South Korea: Pfc. Billie Harrell (left) of Griffin, Georgia, and Pvt. Morgan Hannan of Columbus, Mississippi, lie behind their “tank antidote,” the 3.5 and 2.7 bazookas, on the Naktong River front. Late reports had yanks on the offensive on three Korean fronts, August 14, 1950
1950
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Beggar Seated on a Grassy bank, his Wares Displayed in a Box Suspended from a Strap Across his Right Shoulder, from the series "Beggars and Other Low Life"
Jan Georg van Vliet
1632
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Bileam (The Story of Balaam and the Ass). "Und die Eselin sahe den Engel des Herrn im wege stehen und ein blas Schwert in seiner Hand (And he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way with his drawn sword in his hand)…" (Numbers 22:31 - 23)
Georg Lemberger
ca.1530
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Baudelaire de profile en chapeau (Baudelaire in profile, wearing a hat), as published in "Charles Asselineau Charles Baudelaire, sa vie et son oeuvre (Charles Baudelaire, His Life and His Work)", 1869
Édouard Manet
etched in 1862, published in 1869
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Charles Baudelaire, de Face as (Charles Baudenaire, three-quarters view), published in "Charles Asselineau, Charles Baudelaire, sa vie et son oeuvre (Charles Asselineau, Charles Baudelaire, His Life and His Work)", 1869
Édouard Manet
etched in 1865, published in 1869