Creator Bio
Moshe Gross
1952–2018
Moshe Gross was an Israeli photographer who documented the evolution of the country’s built environment throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Primarily a technical and industrial photographer, Gross captured images of Israel’s myriad infrastructural developments, including petrochemical plants and foundries. His graphic black-and-white photos are as much artistic compositions as documentary images. His photographs have been prominently featured in several Israeli exhibitions, including the 2007 show Haifa in the Eye of the Camera at the Haifa City Museum. Gross was the owner of the Keren-Or photography studio in Haifa.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Laying the Pipes of the National Water Carrier from the Sea of Galilee to the Negev
This photograph by Moshe Gross is very much in the tradition of Zionist and Israeli iconography, which favored images stressing the heroic aspects of Zionism and the “new Jews” who were building…