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Micha Bar-Am
Torah Scribe1967, printed 1981

Not on view
Black and white photograph of an elderly man in a kippah bent over a Torah scroll at a wooden table, writing with a quill, with dense Hebrew text in the foreground

Micha Bar-Am, Torah Scribe, 1967, printed 1981, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Eric Orr, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Micha Bar-Am
Germany, Berlin, active Israel, born 1930
Title
Torah Scribe
Place Made
Israel
Date Made
1967, printed 1981
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 12 1/2 × 9 13/16 in. (31.75 × 24.92 cm) Primary support: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (35.4 × 27.62 cm) Mat: 20 × 15 7/8 in. (50.8 × 40.32 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Eric Orr
Accession Number
M.91.388.18
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Blondet, José Luis. Six Scripts for Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020.