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Born on August 25th, 1926, in Germany, Dommasch emigrated to Canada in
1954. Unemployed and with little English, he enrolled in a correspondence course in
photography. In 1955 he began working at the University of Saskatchewan as an
Assistant Photographer and graduated from the New York Institute of Photography in
1959. He was made the head of Photographic Services for the U of S College of
Medicine (1963), became an Assistant Professor of Surgery (1971), and eventually a
Professor of Art and Art History. He then served as Head of the Department of Art and
Art History at the University (1984 to 1993).
Dommasch was a general member and also served as the Visual Arts
Chairman of the Saskatchewan Arts Board (1988-89). He was a Fellow of the Biological
Photographic Association (1965) and an associate of the Royal Photographic Society
(1963). Amongst a host of other awards, he was given the highest Canadian award for
contributions to photography when presented with the William V. Gordon Award in
1974.
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