Dody Weston Thompson

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1923 – 2012

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Who was Dody Weston Thompson?

Dody Weston Thompson was a 20th-century American photographer and chronicler of the history and craft of photography. She learned the art in 1947 and honed her own expression of “straight” or realistic photography, the style that emerged in Northern California in the 1930s. Dody worked intimately with contemporary icons Edward Weston, Brett Weston and Ansel Adams during the late 1940s and into the 1950s.

Dody was invited in 1949 to be a member of the photographic organization Group f/64, a bastion of the emerging West Coast Photographic Movement. In 1950, she was also one of the founding members of the non-profit organization that published the photographic journal Aperture in 1952, to which she was also a contributor. In 1952, she won the prestigious Albert M. Bender Award which financed a year's work in photography. Her camera work is represented in dozens of museums and private collections as well as in many photographic books and magazines. She also participated in multiple solo and group exhibitions from the late 1940s through the early 2000s in the United States and Japan.

Acknowledged as a gifted writer of both prose and poetry, Dody married this skill with her camera expertise. She was an authority on the history of photography, camera and darkroom technique, and the lives of her artistic colleagues. Dody penned commentary on the work of contemporary photographers, focusing particularly on the legacies of the complex artist Edward Weston and his son Brett Weston. Her articles appeared in numerous photography publications around the world from the late 1940s through 2003. Her skill in literary criticism was highlighted in her chapter on the novelist Pearl S. Buck in the 1968 book American Winners of the Nobel Literary Prize.

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Born
Apr 11, 1923
New Orleans
Also known as
  • Dody W. Thompson
Nationality
  • United States of America
Died
Oct 14, 2012

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on July 23, 2013

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