Shosh Kormosh (1948-2001)
Photographer and painter. Born in Regensburg, Germany, she immigrated to Israel with her family in 1949. Kormosh began studying art at a relatively late age in order to become a painter, but she developed her skills mainly in photography. In 1981-85, she studied at the Ramat HaSharon Art Teachers College with such well-known teachers as Moshe Gershoni, Dganit Berest and Boaz Tal.
After graduating, Kormosh worked as a photojournalist in Ha-ir (Tel Aviv’s trailblazing local newspaper) in 1988-92, and specialized in portraits. She also developed the area of dance and theater photography, and photographed in Batsheva during Ohad Naharin’s first term as artistic director. In 1992-93, she taught photography in the college where she had studied, and in 1995 she taught photography at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gan.
Kormosh won the Ministry of Education and Culture’s Plastic Arts Award (1997) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art’s Eugen Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Art (1999).
Shosh Kormosh died in 2001 at age 53. Her posthumously reprinted works were displayed in 2008 in a retrospective at the Open Museum of Photography in the Tel Hai Industrial Park.