Those images seen everywhere, although strictly photographic, are just ghosts, shadows of what we used to think of as photos. What we are looking at right now is not only the production of images in astronomical quantities, but also in a mode where even the concept of photography has vanished. For me, that question needed to be urgently revisited. In 1972, Daido Moriyama made his legendary book, Bye Bye Photography, in an attempt to answer the pressing question of what photography could still be for his generation. What we see then is nothing but the gestures of the hands while taking a picture, and the voids that form around those hands where a camera is no longer there-yet is somehow still present. Micha Bar-Am © Micha Bar Am | Magnum Photos
By the way, today there is free distribution of special masks for bearded people and a special solution for pets.” Most of them landed not far from our home and we could hear every explosion. So I photographed them.Īs it turned out, the warheads did not contain unconventional materials but the damage that the 39 missiles caused was severe.
I was ready to photograph it, with my equipment already in my car, when I heard the alarm, but as it was not clear yet whether the missile was ‘conventional’ or not, I decided to wait it out with my family–my wife, our two sons, and our house cat. The day on which the first missile was launched the siren sounded and everybody gathered in the sealed room. Oddly, there was no solution for bearded men like myself, nor for pets, who could not wear the masks. Because the missiles were capable of carrying chemical or biological warheads, Israelis were equipped with gas masks and instructed to seal off a room in their homes. Ating, bowing to pressure from the United States, which was leading an offensive against Iraq.
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