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Artist:
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Micha Bar-Am
Published by Photographic Publishers International
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Title:
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First Soldier at the Wall, Six Day War
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Date:
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1967
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Medium:
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Gelatin silver print (printed 1981)
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Dimensions:
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17 15/16 x 13 in. (45.56 x 33.02 cm) (image)
19 15/16 x 16 in. (50.64 x 40.64 cm) (sheet)
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Credit Line:
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Gift of Elaine Dines Cox and Kris Cox
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Location:
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Gallery 280
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Micha Bar-Am's photo from the Six Day War in Jerusalem touches on the theme of spiritual power in the face of violent and politically-charged environs. The man pictured was one of the first paratroopers to reach the Western Wall, a long-standing principal site of Jewish worship prohibited to Jews by Jordanian rule from 1948 until 1967. The photo reinforces religious piety with military power--the bullets draped over his shoulders seemingly transformed into a prayer shawl.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Bar-Am, Micha
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Role:
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Photographer
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Nationality:
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Israeli
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Life Dates:
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Israeli, born 1930
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Name:
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Photographic Publishers International
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Role:
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Publisher
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Edition; Signature in black ink, below image: [238/300 Micha Bar-Am]
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Classification:
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Photographs
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Physical Description:
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head and shoulders of a soldier seen from the back, facing a wall; wearing a yarmulke, 2 rows of bullets around his neck and camoflaged shirt
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Creation Place:
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Asia, Israel, , ,
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Edition:
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Edition of 300; 238/300
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Accession #:
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98.265.6.1
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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