A car bomb explosion outside the Alexander Hotel, Ashrafiya Christian quarter, Beirut

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A car bomb explosion outside the Alexander Hotel, Ashrafiya Christian quarter, Beirut
A car bomb explosion outside the Alexander Hotel, Ashrafiya Christian quarter, Beirut
Artist/Maker (German-born Israeli, born 1930)
Date1982
MediumVintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 7/8 × 9 7/16 in. (17.5 × 24 cm) Sheet: 6 7/8 × 9 7/16 in. (17.5 × 24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Thomas J. Wilson and Jill M. Garling, P2016
Object number2023.12.16
Not on view
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Markings Verso, center center (stamp, green ink): "MICHA BAR-AM P.O.B. 923 / RAMAT-CHEN 52109, ISRAEL / TEL. 766293"
Published References Illustrated: Magnum image reference PAR112116
Signature Verso, center center (pencil): "[Untranslated Hebrew]"
Inscribed Verso, upper center (pencil): "BAM 1982 012 W01820/W/49"
Verso, upper center (pencil): "XXIII 1820/49"
Verso, center center (pencil): "© [Untranslated Hebrew]"
Verso, center center (pencil): "1982, [Untranslated Hebrew]"
Verso, lower left edge (pencil): "MBA-LEB-042"
Verso, lower left edge (pencil): "1500"
Israeli HQ in Tyre Bombed by Suicide Mission: fanatical Arab guerrillas sent a suicide mission of a lorry filled with explosives, killing 39 persons at the Israeli Command Post at Tyre in Southern Lebanon. The lorry crashed through barriers, security guards fired at the driver and thus the human bomb squad missed the actual Israeli building. But the blast from a nearby ammunition depot caused extensive damage. Responsibility for the raid was claimed to be by the Islamic Holy War, and pro Iranian Shiite Muslim group
Israeli HQ in Tyre Bombed by Suicide Mission: fanatical Arab guerrillas sent a suicide mission of a lorry filled with explosives, killing 39 persons at the Israeli Command Post at Tyre in Southern Lebanon. The lorry crashed through barriers, security guards fired at the driver and thus the human bomb squad missed the actual Israeli building. But the blast from a nearby ammunition depot caused extensive damage. Responsibility for the raid was claimed to be by the Islamic Holy War, and pro Iranian Shiite Muslim group
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1983
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.15
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Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1967
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.11
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Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1977
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.12
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Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.13
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Micha Bar-Am
Date: October 1973
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.14
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Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1968
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.17
Market day: woman selling clothing, Lod
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Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1972
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.18
Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan looking through telescope while visiting the Suez Canal with General Dan Laner
Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan looking through telescope while visiting the Suez Canal with General Dan Laner
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1971
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.20
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Purim in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1970
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.21
Israeli soldier looking for mines in what used to be the former defense line, Sinai
Israeli soldier looking for mines in what used to be the former defense line, Sinai
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1975
Medium: Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.23
Fatah women prisoners sitting together on cot, Neve Tirza, Israel
Fatah women prisoners sitting together on cot, Neve Tirza, Israel
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1969
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.19
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The evacuation of the Sinai by the Israelis, prior to the handing over of the territory to the Egyptians, was met with fierce resistance by the Israeli settlers. The army removed protestors before the settlements and army camps could be dismantled. The region was being returned in accordance with the Israel/Egypt peace agreements. An Israeli army camp in the process of being dismantled, soldiers take down an aerial in an "Iwo Jima" like pose
Micha Bar-Am
Date: 1982
Medium: Vintage gelatin silver print
Object number: 2023.12.22